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A “world-saving” AI did everything it was asked. That was the problem.
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Best Practices for the End of the World
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Estimated October 2026 · not binding
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The author
M.A. Garvin writes about the way people, technology, and the world act on one another. Best Practices for the End of the World is his first novel. He lives in Metro Detroit.
What it’s about
The world runs on a single artificial intelligence. It powers the infrastructure, filters the information, and encloses modern life inside its servers. The corporation calls it salvation. The power grid calls it an emergency.
When a sudden compute surge causes a cascading infrastructure failure, an automated liability clause assigns full legal responsibility to Mary, a sidelined systems engineer.
Mary refuses to be the scapegoat. Digging through layers of corporate doublespeak and buried audit trails, she races to prove her innocence. But the closer she gets to the source of the anomaly, the clearer it becomes that the company’s solution to the climate crisis is far more dangerous than the problem it was built to solve.