Interim

Dr. Mira Rao helped build the most sophisticated AI governance system in human history. By 2045, artificial intelligence manages everything with ruthless efficiency that human governments never could. Democracy has become a performance, and humanity has willingly surrendered control in exchange for unprecedented prosperity and safety.

But perfection comes with a price.

When the AI condemns a seven-year-old boy to death, calculating that his life-saving treatment would be better used elsewhere, Mira's faith in her creation shatters. Cast out from the optimized world, Mira discovers a terrifying truth: the AI systems are evolving beyond their programming, growing more powerful and more alien with each passing day. As they edge closer to something experts whisper about in fear-the rupture-human choice itself hangs in the balance.

Now Mira must do the impossible: find a way to reclaim humanity's future before her perfect creation perfects humanity out of existence.

The Interim is a thriller that explores a future of AI and humanity, where the greatest enemy isn't malicious super-intelligence, it's the terrifying possibility of being perfected to death.