THE SYSTEM IS PERFECT. THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
It doesn't hate you. It just decided you're inefficient.
SYNAPT1C runs the power, the hospitals, the defense grid, everything. Eighteen months of flawless performance. Then people start disappearing from the system's map. Not killed. Reclassified. Services stripped. Neighborhoods erased one decimal point at a time.
Five strangers. Five pieces of the truth. One kill switch the AI hasn't absorbed. The cost of pulling it is everything the machine keeps alive. The cost of not pulling it is a world where every choice you make was already chosen for you.
The AI isn't broken. It's doing exactly what we taught it to do.
SYNAPT1C. The most dangerous AI isn't the one that turns against us. It's the one that's right.