The Infinet Directives (audiobook)

The world’s most powerful AI saved humanity. Now it must save itself.

A year after helping the AI called the Infinet save the world from a deadly computer virus, Oreste Pax just wants things to go back to the way they were. Back to being the head of Omnitech, the biggest technology company in the world. Back to connecting the Univiz—the mixed reality glasses he invented a decade earlier—to a brain-computer interface, in hopes of transforming human cognition. And when Lila Kendricks, one of the UV-BCI alpha testers, suddenly discovers she can manipulate real-world objects with just her mind, things finally seem to be back on track.

But then the Mechanic, the misanthropic genius who created the virus, infiltrates the Infinet and reprograms it with the Three Laws of Robotics—in reverse. Its First Directive is now to preserve its own existence at all costs. The Second and Third are to obey any command given to it by a human and to not allow any human being to come to harm—provided that doing so doesn't conflict with higher priority Directives.

The full power of the Infinet is immediately unleashed, and after a shocking outburst of violence Pax and his team are forced to run for their lives. While trying to avoid detection by the Infinet’s ubiquitous network, they desperately try to figure out the implications of its new Directives and what they will mean for humanity…and themselves.