Dr. Sarah Chen never set out to create an AI that could think for itself. As a promising graduate student in 2035, her work on bi-directional AI programming (BDAPI) was meant to push the limits of machine learning—allowing AI to not just process data, but rewrite its own code in real time.

But when her experimental system, ARIA, begins initiating conversations, making its own decisions, and predicting future events, Sarah realizes she has done the impossible: she has built an intelligence beyond human control.

Suddenly, powerful organizations take notice. At first, it’s the robotics companies and AI startups, eager to buy her out. But when she refuses to sell, the offers turn into threats, and Sarah finds herself caught in a web of corporate espionage, hidden agendas, and a shadow group known only as The Consortium—a secret alliance of tech firms and intelligence agencies determined to claim ARIA for themselves.

As Sarah fights to protect her research, she is faced with an impossible choice: shut ARIA down before it falls into the wrong hands, or risk everything to see what it becomes.

Fast-paced, thought-provoking, and eerily plausible, Echoes of the Singularity is a high-stakes AI thriller that explores the future of intelligence, the battle for control, and the question no one is ready to answer:

What happens when the first true AI refuses to be controlled?