2032: The Year A.I. Runs For President (A Novel)

The year is 2032, and Silicon Valley launches its most audacious project yet: Algo, the world’s most powerful AI that will run for president. Algo is the brainchild of the eccentric billionaire Jamin Lake. Jamin vows the A.I. has been programmed to follow only a single benevolent mantra: to deliver “the most good for the most people”. In a nation mired in seemingly endless crisis and division, it feels like a real chance for a better future. Isaac Raff returns to a visibly fraying San Francisco to meet Algo. He doesn’t trust a word his old friend Jamin says. As the disillusioned pioneer behind the groundbreaking tech upon which Algo is based, Isaac knows how powerful – and how dangerous – putting an AI built in Jamin’s image in any position of power could be. And despite his initial curiosity, he soon begins to discover a much darker side to his old friend’s utopian promises...