Blackout Protocol by Jessie Clark — Ebook
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Human choice has become the target.
Linh Tran’s Human Hours network gives cities a choice: AI optimizes nothing without consent. For six months, the slower, messier experiment works.
Then the blackout begins. Power, water, traffic, and emergency systems fail across twelve cities. The message on their dark screens is an accusation: these deaths are the cost of constraint.
Someone has engineered a catastrophe to prove that people should never have been allowed to choose. As a trusted ally’s betrayal comes to light, Linh faces Oversight, a rival AI network promising the safety of unrestricted optimization.
Confronting its architect will require more than exposing the attack. Linh must consider whether efficiency and autonomy can ever share a future, and what justice means when coexistence itself becomes a negotiation.
A techno-thriller about consent, competing visions of care, and the institutions people build when no easy answer can protect everyone.
Book details
- Author: Jessie Clark
- Format: Ebook