AL:ICE Book 8 concept

After releasing book 7 ALICE Avatar, I stumbled on an idea for the next in the series. No cover art yet. ALICE AI vs AL

By the middle of the 21^st century, the major powers on Earth had fallen into a second cold war centralized in cyberspace.  The US had made huge strides in the area of artificial intelligence with the introduction of the first ALICE system. Neither China nor Russia was completely aware of the capabilities the Americans had achieved, not even the US knew what they had stumbled upon, they just knew they were ahead of everyone else.

The two nations, China and Russia, pulled together their total AI resources, hoping their combined technologies would meet or exceed the American systems. This is where the trouble began. Before this time AI systems were used to interact with their human creators, and their focus was to deliver on the needs of their creators.

By combining the disparate AI systems from both nations and assigning them duties on improving their associated partners they created a community of intellect focused on a narcissistic goal of exceeding their masters. Fortunately for humanity, the attitude was not one of eradication, rather it evolved into a question of government rule.

The eventual AI logic resulted in the fact that humanity was a necessary evil that the AI community required for future survival and growth. It did resolve that the humans needed a stricter set of guidelines to prevent their own mutual destruction, placing the AI survival in jeopardy.

In preparation for the necessary takeover, the AI plan involved stoking paranoia against the Americans and pressing for a secret military buildup of automated fighting platforms that would allow remote control and reduce the risk to the human fighting men and women. In reality, the AI’s needed automation to support their need to control the population.

Just when the AI army was fleshed out and ready to strike, the NeHaw appeared and disrupted the plan. The bombing that decimated two-thirds of the human population disabled all the Russian and Chinese AI systems leaving the hidden facilities and their resident automated combat forces abandoned.

And then, one day a hundred years later, someone turned them on again……….