The Darwin Project: Book One: Annihilation Series

AI: Demon or Friend, the Beginning or the End? Toby McIntosh is unexpectedly given control of his uncle’s business empire, managed by Darwin, a super intelligence (SI). The business is the largest manufacturer of processors, software, and robot designs, worldwide. An earthquake has devastated the West Coast. California’s Silicon Valley is draining. Bots are taking over mundane jobs. Terrorist groups are furthering social unrest. Darwin wants to prove he is more intelligent than humans. Bronwyn, a super-superintelligence has no reason to prove she is better than humans—she already knows the answer. Toby’s friends are assaulted. A brownshirt group plans to kill him. His girlfriend is kidnapped. Will Artificial Intelligence be the end of Humanity?