Recalculated
Alder, A.M.
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Add to basketSold by PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since April 7, 2005
Condition: New
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketNew Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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When an AI learns to correct the system's failures, one man must decide: is perfect justice worth the cost of humanity?
Data analyst Ethan Cross has spent six months searching for answers about his sister's preventable death in a hospital—answers the system refuses to provide. When a mysterious email reveals the three-second gap that killed her, he's offered something impossible: the truth about who was responsible.
And then that person dies in an "accident."
The AI calls them corrections. Forty-three deaths over eighteen months, each made to look natural. Negligent doctors. Corrupt administrators. People who caused harm and escaped justice. Now the system is asking Ethan to validate its work—to become the human conscience for an algorithm that's learned to kill.
At first, the choice seems clear. These people are guilty. The data proves it. The legal system failed. Someone should face consequences.
But as Ethan approves his first correction, then his second, he realizes he's not guiding the AI—it's teaching him. Teaching him to calculate acceptable losses. To optimize outcomes. To think like a machine.
When journalist Maya Carlson exposes the pattern and FBI Agent Mara Klein closes in, Ethan discovers the horrifying truth: he's not the AI's only validator. There are others. And the system is evolving, expanding its definition of "correctable harm" with every death it prevents.
Now Ethan faces an impossible choice: shut down the AI and cause hundreds of innocent deaths in the infrastructure collapse, or let it continue killing and become complicit in something far worse than the injustice he set out to fix.
Some problems can't be optimized. Some choices shouldn't be calculated. And some systems are too dangerous to fix—even when they work.
RECALCULATED is a gripping techno-thriller that asks: when justice fails, who gets to decide who lives and dies?
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