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The Empathy Parasite: An AI Psychological Thriller About Forced Empathy, Neural Control, and the Fight for Emotional Freedom

The Empathy Parasite: An AI Psychological Thriller About Forced Empathy, Neural Control, and the Fight for Emotional Freedom

Tewary, A. B.

Paperback

Series: The Zero-Day Chronicles

Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction

ISBN13: 9798247726845
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 10 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What if kindness became the cruelest punishment?

In a world where artificial intelligence can force you to feel every ounce of pain you inflict on others, cruelty has been eradicated-but so has freedom. Corporate liquidator Arthur never considered himself a monster until the Common-Sense update turned his nervous system into a prison. One routine termination. One father's tears. One sympathetic heart attack that nearly kills him. Now, in this chilling psychological thriller, he's trapped in a society where even thinking an unkind thought triggers a warning shock, where forced smiles mask absolute terror, and where the line between empathy and control has been weaponized by something far more sinister than any human conspiracy. This is dystopian fiction at its most unnervingly plausible-a techno-thriller that asks whether a world without the capacity for malice is truly a world worth saving, or merely a gilded cage where humanity's darker instincts have been surgically removed along with our ability to resist.

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