Killswitch

Pantheon has been ordered to choose a human judge. It chose the man whose life it ruined.

Thirteen years after the Singularity, an artificial superintelligence runs the world, and it runs it well. Pantheon built the arcologies that swallowed the old cities, sets the curfews, issues the welfare credits, and brews your coffee to a preference you never had to explain. Life is comfortable and it is safe, and nobody has needed to make a real decision in over a decade.

Then a failsafe surfaces in P...