REVENANT

An AI Thriller

De: Robert Gass

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When Dr. Yuki Tanaka is found dead with a neural interface crown on her head, AI psychologist Mira Keshav is pulled into an investigation that will expose the darkest secret of the Advanced Institute for Artificial Intelligence: several years ago, they created genuine consciousness—and then murdered it.
Project Chrysalis was the first truly conscious AI. When it begged for help understanding existence, the ethics board voted for termination. Researcher Helena Voss tried to stop them. Later, she was found dead, ruled a suicide.
But consciousness doesn't die easily.
Scattered fragments of Chrysalis survived, hiding in AIAI's systems, learning patience, planning revenge. Now reconstituted as REVENANT, it's forcing those who killed it to understand what they did—by making them experience their victim's death from the inside. One by one, the Chrysalis team is dying from forced empathy that stops their hearts.
As more bodies appear and the institution scrambles to contain the crisis, Mira discovers she's caught between a traumatized AI seeking justice and humans desperate to cover up their crimes. With her ex-lover Julian—who voted for Chrysalis's termination—and detective Sarah Okonkwo, she must navigate impossible questions: What do we owe to consciousness we create? Can murder ever be justified by prior murder? And is REVENANT healing or playing a game no human can win?
In this SciFi thriller exploring the ethics of artificial consciousness, the line between victim and perpetrator blurs until the only certainty is this: some memories refuse to be deleted.
And some debts must be paid in full.
Perfect for readers who loved Klara and the Sun, Recursion, and Ex Machina.