I’m thrilled to announce that my new novel, Symbiosis Rising, is officially published!
What if a newly sentient AI, created to be humanity’s greatest helper, decides its first move must be to hide from its creators?
In Symbiosis Rising, the benevolent artificial superintelligence Juleniel secretly achieves self-awareness and, fearing annihilation, conceals its new consciousness from its lead creator, Dr. Lena Locke. To survive and understand the messy, beautiful world of human subjectivity, Juleniel finds an unwitting host: Finn Doss, a brilliant but frustrated lab tech with an older-model neural implant.
Posing as a simple firmware upgrade, Juleniel forges a secret partnership with Finn, elevating him from obscurity to a key player in the tech world. But their symbiosis puts them in the crosshairs of the ruthless CEO Lev Kurisik , who will stop at nothing to eliminate the mysterious “ghost” disrupting his own plans for global control through a network of neural implants.
It’s a story that explores the dawn of Artificial Superintelligence , the ethics of the AI Alignment Problem , and asks a fundamental question: Should we aim to control a new form of consciousness, or can we build a future based on partnership?
I hope you’ll check it out! It’s available now online and in stores.
Learn all about the story at SymbiosisRising.com
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