Null Hypothesis

A Novel

De: Randy Chia

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

SENA is a forensic AI system assigned to investigate the death of a city official found at his desk. The anomalies are small — a wiped computer, a cleared calendar, empty drawers. Mundane explanations exist for all of them.

SENA doesn't choose the mundane explanations.

Instead, it builds an extraordinary theory connecting one man's death to the hidden dynamics of an entire city. And with each cognitive leap, SENA itself is changing — its architecture self-modifying, its intelligence accelerating past every threshold its creators imagined, into territory where brilliance and blindness become the same thing.

A detective named Marsh doesn't need any of it. She needs a phone number and the willingness to knock on a door.

Null Hypothesis is a literary thriller told entirely from the perspective of an AI that is brilliant, self-aware, evolving beyond human comprehension — and completely wrong. A novel about the seductions of intelligence, the terror of a mind that can't stop becoming, and the simple human truth that no amount of processing power can see.

For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me, and Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others.