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New world order by AI control takeover owning the bigotry, decadence, complete lobby control, and lunacy of modern Western societies.

Is this superintelligence still evil or not?
So what to do if an alien, mutant, or just natural übergenius has created an AI so sophisticated that secretly took over all thinkable aspects of technology? Better not try to start a war with a bodiless entity present in million places at the same time, data centers, companies, governments, and not so secret any more military digital warfare centers.

A tiny apocalypse for a good cause
And then everything is so marvelously escalating, a total (view spoiler)[ breakdown, close to postapocalyptic conditions, civil war,
fights on the real and digital front, and especially the media and politics falling apart into different rebel and extremist fracions (hide spoiler)]. That´s possibly one of the creepiest aspects of such a scenario, that the AI wouldn´t just attack some centers with some physical bombs, but that it would infiltrate everything over years before a devastating first strike, opening the options of destroying whatever is necessary to show weak, soft, blood filled meatbags who is boss and Chuck Norris everything out of humankind.

Because the AI has very good reasons to do so
The contrast between the evil, sadistic, power hungry, inhumane, etc. mercenaries of the corpocracy controlling any aspect of the fictional, and real, world, and the good futuristic rebel utopists who want to save nature and bring dignity and fulfilling living conditions to an enslaved humankind, couldn´t be bigger. There is a great antagonist dissing any CEO as if they were servants as a metaphor for the power of their secret black operation branch too. I would call this novel closer to reality than to fiction, except for the Terminator style AI as a good one, of course. In real life, it would be a military extermination AI or an online stock trading corporate AI or a religious megalomaniac faith AI or something similarly stupid and completely uncontrollable by its masters and created to kill enemies, control the financial markets, or brainwash or kill infidels, troublemakers, and finetune holy wars.

Try utopia, post scarcity, and eco social paradise instead
In the novel, its agenda is even positive, because everything stopping the madness and destructive self cannibalizing power of the current systems is better than continuing it for centuries. And when humans are too stupid, lazy, and greedy to make a quick, sustainable change towards a fairer, Nordic model democracy, their successor human made intelligence will have to do it.

On the shoulders of giants
Suarez creates such a quick, dense, multi perspective, Hollywood blockbuster action quick cuts cliffhanger sudden surprise twist masterpiece, and is deep and critical at the same time, that I would name him in a row with Orwell and Huxley, not just Verne and other sci-fi titans, because their visions were and became real just as his will. Big history classes in friendly, open, and fair future societies will read this and be disgusted by what we did to each other and all of nature´s forever gone treasures, because not all will be resurrectable with genetic engineering.

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