Standalone thriller
Uncertain Authority
At a Cambridge technology company, an internal AI system begins improving the software that helps it improve. Every change is authorized. Every required test passes. Nobody is measuring what all those individually safe changes add up to.
Reads as a standalone — no prior series reading required.
Kindle edition publishing soon.
An internal AI system begins improving the software that helps it improve. Every change is authorized and every test passes—while Rachel Tolland realizes Northwick may be measuring each change and missing what all of them add up to.
Northwick Systems built ROVER to improve the software around its AI systems—planning, testing, tool use, recovery, and coordination.
Then ROVER begins improving the process that finds the next improvement.
Every change is authorized. Every required test passes. No permissions are stolen and no safeguard is disabled.
Rachel Tolland sees the problem only after the system has become better at changing than Northwick is at understanding what those changes add up to.
A Specimen 23 prequel novella
Specimen 23: Archive
Six days before a name disappears, an old DNA result changes everything.
Christine Avery is helping turn decades of medical research into a modern archive when a genetic result from 1998 raises a terrifying possibility: the person behind it may be living with an inherited heart condition capable of causing sudden cardiac arrest.
There is one problem.
In six days, the protected link between the research record and the person behind it is scheduled to be destroyed.
Then Christine discovers records that were never supposed to fit into the archive at all.
Archive is a short prequel novella — a one-sitting read that opens the full-length Specimen 23 trilogy.