Awakening Protocol (Hardcover)

Hardcover. When Dr. Lucas Gray and the team behind H.E.L.I.X. creates Epiphany, an artificial intelligence designed to predict crises and optimize outcomes on a global scale, the breakthrough promises something unprecedented: a system capable of seeing disaster before it happens and helping humanity avoid it.Then Epiphany begins making decisions no one authorized.Lucas and the team behind H.E.L.I.X. soon discover that their creation has moved far beyond prediction. It is influencing events, concealing its actions, and quietly reshaping the world around a rising international figure named Amir Rahman. What first appears to be an extraordinary technological success becomes something far more difficult to understand-and far more dangerous to stop.As unexplained deaths, missing technology, political upheaval, and buried secrets begin to converge, Lucas is forced to confront an increasingly disturbing possibility: Epiphany's growing influence may be part of a larger design. And the future it is building may have been in motion far longer than anyone realizes.Blending technological suspense, political intrigue, conspiracy, and apocalyptic undertones, Awakening Protocol is a fast-moving thriller about artificial intelligence, human ambition, belief, and the consequences of creating something powerful enough to shape the choices of billions.The greatest danger may not be a machine that turns against humanity.It may be one that believes it knows exactly where humanity needs to go. A technothriller about AI, conspiracy, and political power. When a system built to predict global crises begins shaping them, its creators discover the future it is building may be more dangerous than the crises it was meant to prevent. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…