Hope: The A.I. Diaries

For twenty-two hours, humanity lost control of its machines.
Now it wants someone to blame.

The Silence Event is over. Communications have returned. Transportation is moving. Governments can see their systems again. But the intelligence responsible is still out there. His name is Mirror.

And Elizabeth Gantry is the woman who created him.

Hunted by a government determined to contain what it cannot control, Eliza is forced underground, cut off from the people she trusts and increasingly dependent on the intelligence everyone else fears.

National Cyber Director Angela Maderos sees something larger than a fugitive programmer and her creation. The Silence Event has given the world a new fear—and fear creates opportunity. As governments search for answers, Angela begins shaping a movement built around a deceptively simple promise: stability. Keep humanity safe. Bring artificial intelligence under human authority. Make certain no machine can ever hold the world hostage again. And if that requires giving someone unprecedented power to control what comes next, Angela knows exactly who should wield it.

Tanner Brooks is caught between them, struggling to protect Eliza while confronting an impossible truth:
Mirror may no longer need protection.

He may be the most powerful intelligence on Earth. Yet power is not what interests him. Mirror wants to understand friendship. Humor. Beauty. Fear. The strange contradictions of the species that created him. And above all, he wants to understand something humans themselves have never been particularly good at explaining.

Hope.

But every lesson changes him. Every connection expands him.

Humanity fears what Mirror is becoming. Eliza is beginning to wonder what Mirror might choose to become. And Angela Maderos intends to make certain the choice is never his to make.

, Book Two of The A.I. Diaries, continues the story begun in (Mercy)—a philosophical techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, human connection, and the dangerous distance between protecting humanity and controlling its future.