Zeroglyph

By: Vance Pravat

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Synopsis: Would you trust a machine with your life? Raphael is the holy grail of AI: a superintelligent robot that's been programmed to be the perfect moral being. Or at least that's what Andy, its creator, believes. But when the robot disappears from its closely-guarded lab, Andy is hard-pressed to explain how a supposedly foolproof system of physical safeguards and cognitive "laws" could have failed so badly. Besides, the robot has never been in the outside world; will its programming hold or will it unravel, releasing some Frankenstein's monster that was always lurking underneath? Confined to his home in a wheelchair, under siege by a parent company hiding its own dark secrets, Andy is about to find out. At his remote and secluded mansion he has something Raphael wants... something that can erase the moral code in the robot's brain once and for all. And make no mistake, Raphael is coming for it.