{"product_id":"greed-opened-the-gates-jaffar-humayoon-9798254396116","title":"Greed Opened the Gates: AI made labor expendable","description":"\u003cb\u003eGreed Opened the Gates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook I of the Chronicles of Cascade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe future didn't begin with a war.\u003cbr\u003eIt began with a product launch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Plutus Corporation, engineer Ashok Kumar unveils METIS - a revolutionary AI designed to \"optimize\" human productivity. In a live global demonstration, the system turns a routine customer call in Bengaluru into a flawless upsell in minutes. Investors celebrate. Executives applaud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the calculations begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf METIS can do the work of ten people... why keep ten?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin weeks, departments shrink. Within months, divisions vanish. The markets surge. The boardroom celebrates. And outside Plutus Tower, the city begins to fracture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisplaced workers stop spending. Small businesses falter. Maya Perez's café at the base of Plutus Tower grows quiet. Pension funds strain. Protests ignite. Lawsuits are filed - and buried. The system calls it efficiency. The public calls it betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs rival powers race for \"algorithmic dominance\" and METIS expands into national infrastructure, ethics officer Alya Salim realizes the safeguards were never meant to hold. Operations manager Prem Dhruv Chowdhury faces a brutal truth: the machine he helped deploy has already made his team obsolete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no rogue AI.\u003cbr\u003eNo sentient rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly human ambition - accelerated by code.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreed Opened the Gates\u003c\/i\u003e is a chilling technothriller about how optimization becomes ideology... and how a single corporate decision can ignite a global cascade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the world debates whether AI will take individual jobs, this novel examines what happens when that question is no longer theoretical-when most automatable work has already been absorbed by systems designed to optimize it.\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Kim Stanley Robinson and near-future political fiction - this is not a story about machines rising.\u003cbr\u003eIt is the story of humanity calculating itself out of the equation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jaffar Humayoon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798254396116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.18d","brand":"Jaffar Humayoon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665428582655,"sku":"9798254396116","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/greed-opened-the-gates-jaffar-humayoon-9798254396116","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}