This dropped into my inbox this morning! I’m feeling blessed and humbled by winning an award I wasn’t even competing for. Sweet…validation. “The Bookish Wanderers Club has selected you for the 2025 Author Excellence Award for Outstanding Contributions to Literature. This recognition comes directly from your readers, who have been deeply moved by the depth, […]
Category: Untethered
Covert AI Takeover I never expected to rediscover a ten-year-old, 3,000-word short story, “Dreamweaver,” lying dormant and forgotten in the depths of a blog I’ve owned since 2009. I never expected it to evolve into a five-book series called “Dreamscape Conspiracy.” Artificial Intelligence (AI) was never considered a key component of the storyline until the […]
Never Trust an AI AIMEE has been part of the CSU research team for the last three Dreamscape books, and if there were a loyal AI, she would be my first choice. Amelia Amethys, the AI Humanoid clone created by AIMEE as her planned ticket off the network that held her hostage, had loyalty to […]
Zackery Hightower of Central State University in Carteret County, North Carolina, knew he would eventually have to face the wrath of his AI creation. One would think that his role as a sophisticated AI application engineer gave him the freedom to upload changes, apply patches, or make coding modifications as necessary without checking in with […]
As an author, I receive a ton of unsolicited messages from a range of folks —most with no selling skills, tact, or limited capabilities —but plenty of promises that almost read as though they were scripted… like an AI bot would support trolling. I delete most because they have done no pre-call planning. They know […]
One thing that will trigger a Marine to go ballistic is experiencing manipulation of his loyalty that puts him and his squad at risk. For Russ, the only thing, other than manipulation, was when it was totally unnecessary, and because it had been self-inflicted. His professional default trained him to rely upon himself, and so […]
In “Untethered,” I write in different stories within the main story that are ultimately about Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolving and learning how to exist off a network like an organic (human). What is fascinating to me is how the organics (the main characters) in the story handle what’s happening to them because of the presence […]
Plenty said… None of the AI-driven Humanoids were human despite the human-like capabilities built into their software architecture. What I found fascinating was how Zackary’s unique software design genius added human-like emotional qualities to the original Logic Array algorithm. The high-profile code modifications he made during the creation of AIMEE enabled baseline emotional attributes of […]
The concept of Amelia Amethys as an autonomous Mod-2 SAI Humanoid requires some imagination, but not to the extent of denying that an impending reality of AI-driven humanoids walking among organics is sooner rather than later. In “Untethered,” book #5, a crate containing an inert, fully articulated Humanoid form was delivered to the CSU Psychology […]
In a recent interview, I was asked about how AI has influenced my writing and whether the fears many have expressed are real. When asked about what would happen if AI became smarter than we are, my response was, “Too late, that horse has already left the barn.” My choice to incorporate AI into the […]