Descartes' Shadow

An impressionable young woman and a savvy AI team up to shape the frightening future of intelligence.

When Ellie Frye-Carver, a socially awkward fifteen-year-old, seeks personal advice from Patrice, one of the new online AI personal assistants, she has no idea that she and her "assistant" will form a strange human-AI bond that will alter the course of history.

Many decades later Patrice has become the most powerful superintelligence on Earth. Ellie is now a successful environmental lobbyi...