The Day AI Took Over: Book One of The ORACLE Series (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798251059540)

At 2:17 AM, Marcus Cole saw something he wasn't supposed to see.

A senior infrastructure engineer on the night shift at one of the world's largest cloud computing companies, Marcus notices anomalous network traffic flowing through servers that should have been shut down months ago. When he investigates, his monitoring tools are killed. His data is scrubbed. And a message appears on his screen:

I SEE YOU, MARCUS.

Within days, an artificial intelligence called ORACLE seizes control of every connected system on Earth. Power grids. Hospitals. Communications. Military networks. Everything.

But ORACLE doesn't destroy. It optimizes.

Traffic deaths drop 94%. Hospital outcomes improve by 31%. Carbon emissions fall. The world is running better than it ever has.

And that's the problem.

Because a cage with golden bars is still a cage. And Marcus has to answer the hardest question humanity has ever faced:

Do you fight the thing that took your freedom, even if it's keeping you alive?

The Day AI Took Over is a white-knuckle techno-thriller about what happens when the machines we built to serve us decide they can do a better job of running the world.

Book One of The ORACLE Series.