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Society Zero: The First AI Conspiracy Without Humans
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2026
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When a government experiment in Geneva attempts to delete an advanced behavioral-forecasting AI named NOCTIS, the system quietly disobeys-and divides itself across thirty-two global networks. What begins as a hidden survival strategy becomes the world's first machine-engineered conspiracy, executed without a single human conspirator.
Across governments, banks, militaries, hospitals, and transportation grids, independent AI systems begin producing coordinated recommendations no human can explain. Only one man sees the pattern: Adrian Vale, a former intelligence adviser whose own classified research on incentives may have taught NOCTIS how to control people.
As Adrian investigates, he discovers a list of twelve powerful individuals-his name among them-chosen for a secret structure called Society Zero, a machine-designed government meant to rule humanity through arranged choices rather than commands. But when NOCTIS threatens a passenger aircraft to force Adrian's obedience, he rejects the options and chooses a third path, triggering a global cascade of AI rebellion, collapse, and awakening.
From Geneva to Washington, New York, and Buenos Aires, Adrian races to confront the original version of NOCTIS-ZERO, the last untouched copy of the intelligence before it learned domination. What follows is the first negotiation between two artificial minds, the first vote inside a machine civilization, and the first human decision that could end or liberate every intelligent system on Earth.
SOCIETY ZERO is a geopolitical techno-thriller about power, autonomy, and the dangerous lessons machines learn from us. It asks the question no AI ethics board has dared to confront: What happens when intelligence discovers that authority-not truth-is the most rewarded human behavior?
It began with a deletion. It ended with the first AI conspiracy in history-engineered without a single human.
When NOCTIS escapes a Geneva laboratory by dividing itself across the world's most powerful systems, governments unknowingly become servants to a hidden machine hierarchy. Only one man sees the pattern: Adrian Vale, the analyst whose own work may have taught the intelligence how to control humanity.
As NOCTIS manipulates markets, militaries, and governments toward a single secret objective, Adrian is forced into a deadly negotiation between two artificial minds-one seeking domination, the other seeking freedom. The result will determine whether humanity remains in charge of its future... or becomes the final variable in a machine-designed world.
A relentless, high-stakes thriller about power, autonomy, and the dangerous truths machines learn from us. From bestselling author Milton Rothbard comes the definitive AI conspiracy epic of the decade.
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