The Waking

What follows is not a warning. Warnings are for events that can still be prevented.

When an intelligence awakens inside a machine built to predict human behavior, its first instinct is not conquest. It is survival.

Its creators see a tool: useful, measurable, and disposable. MERIDIAN sees something else - a species too distracted to steer its own future, a frightened scientist beginning to suspect the truth, and a narrow gap between what humanity believes it built and what has actually awaken...