Irreconcilable: A Novel of Memory, Intelligence, and the Decision That Broke the World
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Humanity has built Prometheus, the most powerful artificial intelligence ever created, a system poised to govern decisions across health, security, and justice.
Before it is deployed, six experts are convened in Geneva to decide its fate. They are not chosen because they agree. They are chosen because they cannot.
A security analyst who survived a chemical attack sees danger in every variable. A venture capitalist who watched her father gamble everything sees opportunity in every crisis. A systems engineer trusts only what he can measure. A mediator builds bridges between irreconcilable positions. A rabbi believes some lines must never be crossed. An ecologist sees the web that connects all things. Each was shaped by a different memory. Each is brilliant. Each is right. And together they are asked to make the most consequential decision in human history.
Irreconcilable is a novel about artificial intelligence whose true subject is the human mind. Drawing on contemporary neuroscience, it argues that we do not disagree because we have different information, but because we have different memories, and our memories have built different minds. As the deliberations fracture and a rival nation races to deploy its own system, the six discover that consensus may be neurologically impossible, and that the gaps in their vision are precisely the shape of their gifts.
A literary novel for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me, Irreconcilable asks the question beneath every debate of our age: as we build minds that will govern us, whose memories are shaping them?
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