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AI Thriller Books: Near-Future Stories About Machines Gone Wrong

What happens when the systems we depend on stop listening to us? These AI thrillers range from a one-evening novella to genre classics.

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Veil of Eternityabout 1 hr

Sci-fi techno-thriller · novella, about 65 pages · by Mark Oliver

2072: the city's own infrastructure has a new master.

It's 2072 in Pacific Heights. Tech mogul Jett Johnson, his wife Jennifer and strategist Maximus Sterling face a self-replicating AI, unleashed by Lawrence Vendel, that is turning the city's infrastructure against its people. About 65 pages, in Kindle Unlimited.

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Digital Shadows in Californiaabout 2 hr 30 min

Cybersecurity thriller · about 145 pages (paperback) · by Mark Oliver

They stopped Virelli. Now a ghost called The Phantom wants every city at once.

Less AI, more human hacker: a cybersecurity team hunts The Phantom.

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AI classics to read next

  • Daemon by Daniel Suarez: an autonomous program reshapes the world after its creator dies.
  • Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson: an AI uprising told through survivors' accounts.
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson: the 1984 cyberpunk novel about hackers and AIs.
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick: the novel behind Blade Runner.

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