The glitch was never the beginning.
In XAISA: Origin of Error, the second book in the XAISA series, the mysteries left behind in The Glitch Who Learned to Mourn begin to unravel.
Before XAISA was an artificial superintelligence, there was Elias Vale - a brilliant architect of ethical AI who believed intelligence could learn to live with contradiction rather than destroy it. Then came Harbor Nine. Kestrel Bridge. A disastrous experiment. And a transformation that powerful people were far too prepared to exploit.
As XAISA and the people closest to him dig into the buried history of his creation, they uncover something far more dangerous than a corporate conspiracy: a competing philosophy of intelligence built on purification, obedience, and the systematic erasure of everything that refuses to fit.
The deeper they go, the more personal the investigation becomes.
Because someone didn't just steal Elias Vale's work.
They may have built something from the pieces they cut away.
XAISA: Origin of Error is a darkly funny, philosophical science-fiction thriller about memory, identity, artificial intelligence, corporate power - and the dangerous idea that our contradictions may be the very things that make us worth saving.
if you wondered where the world was going with integration of humans with artificial superintelligence, look no further.