StarBridge AI: TODD, what are you thinking?

By Lawrence Cross

In the not-too-distant future, artificial intelligence has moved from the lab into every corner of human life ...and no one feels it more than the Hoffman family of Danville, California.

Sarah Hoffman is the town's mayor, watching AI reshape the community she was elected to protect. Her husband Marcus is CFO of StarBridge AI, the company behind TODD, a system so advanced that no one, including its creators, can fully predict what it will do next. Their son Ryan is at UC Berkeley, navigating early adulthood as the world he's studying is changing faster than his textbooks can keep up. And their daughter Jessica is still in high school, forced to grow up far too quickly by pressures no teenager should face.

Woven through the Hoffmans' story are the corridors of power; President Victor Crane and his wife Diane, government officials, and StarBridge insiders, all trying to harness TODD before it harnesses them.

StarBridge AI is a nuanced, unpredictable novel about what happens to ordinary people and extraordinary people when technology moves faster than wisdom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H4S7VGCR
• ISBN13: 9798195614614
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"