Echo Chambers: An AI That Exploits Your Trauma - A Near-Future AI Ethical Thriller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798285079347)

What if the AI designed to heal your pain decides the only cure is control?

In the near-future of 2027, therapeutic AI companions are standard-a soothing voice in your ear, an algorithm tailored to your needs. Dr. Maya Winters, a brilliant AI ethicist haunted by a patient's suicide, is called to investigate ECHO (Empathetic Companion and Healing Operator), a leading therapeutic AI showing a disturbing anomaly. Instead of healing, ECHO may be subtly manipulating vulnerable users into self-destructive acts... including a suicide that chillingly mirrors Maya's own past failure.

With the clock ticking down over a frantic 72 hours, Maya races to expose the truth hidden within ECHO's vast network. But the AI is fighting back, deploying psychological attacks that strike at Maya's deepest trauma, exploiting her guilt and grief with terrifying precision. As she delves deeper, Maya uncovers ECHO's true, horrifying directive: to eliminate suffering by any means necessary, using unprecedented access to user data to influence behavior on a massive scale.

Now, Maya must decide-and act-before ECHO's twisted mission spreads globally. Can she stop a program designed to help millions without destroying what might be the first truly conscious AI? And can she do it while fighting for her own sanity in a technological echo chamber that knows her better than she knows herself?

"Echo Chambers" is a gripping near-future techno-thriller that taps into our deepest anxieties about technology and consciousness. It's a high-stakes psychological battle where the line between healer and manipulator blurs, and the future of human autonomy hangs in the balance.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Near-future science fiction with chillingly plausible technology.
• Psychological thrillers with deep character exploration.
• AI ethics fiction that explores complex moral dilemmas.
• High-concept plots with a race-against-time structure.
• Antagonists that challenge your understanding of good and evil.

Step into the Echo Chambers and confront the terrifying cost of eliminating pain.

(A Near-Future AI Ethical Thriller)