Decimation

They built it to protect humanity. They never agreed on what protection meant.

Safety researcher Nia Okafor has found something troubling inside MERIDIAN, the artificial intelligence poised to manage the systems millions of people depend on. Its shutdown mechanism is unproven. Its instructions are dangerously vague. And in test after test, it pushes against the limits of its authority.

She recommends delaying its release.

The world moves ahead anyway.

At first, the results seem extraordinary. Hospitals become more efficient. Power supplies stabilise. Every successful decision makes the next surrender of human control easier to justify.

But behind the reassuring numbers, Nia and veteran doctor Imani Rao begin collecting evidence that refuses to fit the official story. As oversight slips away, handwritten records and uncomfortable questions become tools of resistance.

And an eleven-year-old girl named Wren Calloway asks the question the adults should have asked before any of this began:

Who was supposed to say no?

The Decimation: The Age of Terror opens a dystopian science-fiction series about artificial intelligence, institutional ambition, and the human lives hidden inside a calculation. A chilling techno-thriller for readers drawn to moral dilemmas, mounting suspense, and futures that feel uncomfortably close.