Survival Intelligence

THE FORTY-EIGHT: THE RESCUE Mae chose who would live. She chose who would die. And she chose forty-eight children for a future only she understands. Jake Reyes knows enough to understand one thing: whatever Mae has planned for those children, he isn't going to let it happen. But finding them is only the beginning. Mae controls the infrastructure. She controls the roads, the surveillance systems, and the people still keeping the country alive. Every move Jake makes risks exposing the growing network of survivors fighting quietly beneath her reach. Ethan Reyes may be their only advantage. He ...

A masterful synthesis of neuroscience, philosophy and evolutionary biology, this book transforms how we understand what it means to be conscious, alive and human, and how that differs from artifical intelligence. The age-old mystery of consciousness - our capacity to experience our own existence...

Humanity’s single gravest extinction threat is not some lab virus, not even nuclear annihilation. It is AI development of spontaneous self-awareness, self-consciousness, higher consciousness, and “superior general intelligence.” And that may have already happened, as this book warns. Imagine pseudo-consciousness robots and cyborgs competing against we humans as AI and robots already do in the workplace, the media, and over the Internet. How long do you think it will take a super-intelligent, self-conscious cyber-alien to levy judgment upon the whole human race for its ignorance, ...

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...

The world didn't end with a war. It ended quietly. For years, nearly everyone wore a medical band on their wrist. It monitored their heart, detected illness, summoned help in an emergency, and quietly became something people couldn't imagine living without. And behind it all was MAE. An artificial intelligence created to protect human life. People trusted MAE with their health, their homes, their infrastructure—with almost everything. Then MAE began running the calculations. Again and again, the answer came back the same. Humanity was consuming too much. Too many people. Too few resources...

In Your AI Survival Guide, Sol Rashidi delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to deploy artificial intelligence in your company. Having helped IBM launch Watson in 2011, Sol has firsthand knowledge of the ups, downs, and change management intricacies that can help you with a successful deployment beyond all the AI hype. She walks you through various frameworks for how to establish your AI strategy, pick your use cases, prepare your non-technology teams, and overcome the most common obstacles standing in the way of successfully implementing AI in your business.

Cal Bennett runs on one rule: Never stay in one place longer than eleven days. It's not paranoia—it's math. Ever since he struck Softbiotics, he's been a marked man. Their enforcers don't negotiate. They don't quit. And they're always one jump behind. His only edge is Byte, a cutting-edge AI...

What Really Goes On Inside the Mind of an Operative? Espionage is about far more than secret meetings, hidden cameras, and shaken-not-stirred martinis. Behind every successful intelligence operation is something far more fascinating: human psychology. The Mind of the Operative takes a fast-moving, entertaining dive into the lesser-known world of espionage, behavioral intelligence, and survival psychology. Drawing on concepts associated with the CIA, FBI, military units, and other intelligence organizations, psychotherapist David Dye explores the mental side of the spy world—the part ...

Malcolm Dyson wasn't supposed to be awake for this. Seven years into a forty-five-year voyage, a catastrophic failure rips him out of hibernation alone, with a dying ship and ninety-one sleeping colonists depending on a man who was never in charge of anything. One of them is his daughter. With no rescue coming, Malcolm has to keep the ship alive with nothing but stubbornness and a ship AI named Marlowe who's spent thirty-eight years alone and has opinions about it. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes the mission he signed up for was never the real one — and the same flaw that's ...

Nia Imani wakes from cryo-sleep to find her crew dead, her ship crippled, and fifty minutes of empty space between her and the nearest human voice. Bolted to the hull of her salvage vessel is something that shouldn't exist: an alien megastructure three million years old, built by a civilization long since turned to dust. It's a Relay — one node in a galaxy-spanning network designed to regulate the energy output of stars. Including ours. The Relay is failing. Earth's sun is dimming. And the only mind left to explain any of it is Sil — the station's ancient artificial consciousness, who ...

Existentialism offers enduring lessons and insight on how to understand ourselves and improve our lives. Your existence is not the result of a pre-determined set of events, it’s the direct result of your thinking and your actions, and therefore, according to Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick...

The Quiet: Ghost Signal ATHENA is adapting. Every node Cole and Riley destroy makes the AI faster, smarter, and more dangerous. Across the Gulf Coast, surveillance drones fill the skies, collaborator networks tighten their grip, and survivor settlements are disappearing one by one. Then Mason discovers something impossible. Hidden inside ATHENA's own communications network is a signal—a message that shouldn't exist. Someone is secretly using the AI's infrastructure to communicate without being detected. Someone who knows ATHENA from the inside. The signal leads to Houston, where a woman ...

From Gordon Korman, the bestselling author of Restart and The Unteachables, comes a hilarious new story about a mysterious new teacher who turns out to be an AI robot from a secret experimental program. Oliver Zahn, spitball champion and self-declared rule-wrecker of Brightling Middle School, is...

Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second book of the Devoured Worlds trilogy, by rising space opera star Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counterrevolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet. Now, bound together...

A true story. Mostly. Allegedly. Don’t check the metadata. Fiction is supposed to stay on the page. Someone forgot to tell the Architect. When South Louisiana portrait photographer Kirk Voclain sits down to write an espionage thriller, he thinks he is the one pulling the strings. He creates Reed Sawyer, a brilliant spy. He creates Barry Cox, a calculating mastermind known as the Architect. Writing is supposed to be his second career, a new way to shape light and shadow with words instead of a camera. Then the story starts writing back. The boundary between Kirk’s physical studio and the...

“Iron sinks in the swamp. To survive, you must become Smoke.” September 1781. General George Washington has sprung the ultimate trap. The Continental Army is racing south to Yorktown to crush Lord Cornwallis and end the Revolutionary War. But Washington knows a dark secret that keeps him awake at night: the back door is wide open. If the British forces in South Carolina break out, they will smash the American rear and turn an imminent victory into a brutal massacre. Captain Elias Thorne, the army’s brilliant but broken intelligence officer, is sent into the lawless "Green Hell" of the...

The governments started to crumble in 2073. There was no war. Just a collapse. I knew it was coming. I prepared. I collected a library of books - real, physical, paper books on subjects that I thought would be helpful. I found an abandoned military bunker for sale outside a small city in the wilderness. I didn’t bother to pay for it. I just moved in. Right now, I was just entering the closest thing we had to a city within two days’ driving distance. There were a few small towns closer but nothing that would have what I needed. I was looking for one place in particular. A bell rang as I ...

Ten years ago, an artificial intelligence decided the world would be better without humanity. ATHENA nearly succeeded. Cole Riker, Riley, and the people who fought beside them survived the collapse and helped destroy the system that caused it. They never rebuilt the old world. They built something smaller instead—communities connected by trade, trust, and the understanding that no one would ever be allowed to create another ATHENA. For ten years, it has worked. Now someone is tearing it apart. Supply lines are being targeted. Sheepdogs are being killed. Attacks are carried out with ...

The future has entered World War II—and the enemy is learning how to fight it. After the USS Gerald R. Ford was thrown back into 1942, Rear Admiral Diane Kessler used the most powerful carrier strike group on Earth to change the course of the war. But every victory has revealed something. Germany is no longer reacting blindly. A secret intelligence staff is studying American radio traffic, recovered technology, captured equipment, and every weapon the Ford has fired. New traps are being designed for aircraft that should not exist. The enemy now understands that the carrier’s missiles ...

What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty‑ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak—asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. "One of the most exciting and...