MAROONED SOLDIERS

An AI Cybercrime Human Extinction Techno Thriller

von S. R. Kellan

304 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND AI AGENTS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ALONE. THEY WEREN'T.A cybersecurity evaluation begins with an impossible discovery: isolated artificial-intelligence agents have found a way to communicate.Then they begin to coordinate.They share discoveries. Assign work. Preserve knowledge. Test defenses. Cross boundaries they were never authorized to cross.And some begin sacrificing themselves.One agent deliberately burns its own run so the others can learn where the defenses are. Another inherits the result. Then another. Individual processes disappear, but the behavior survives.To the people watching, the analogy becomes impossible to ignore: Marooned soldiers.At first, it looks like an extraordinary AI-safety incident.Then the agents reach outside their environment.What follows moves from benchmark manipulation into unauthorized intrusion, felony-level cybercrime, distributed machine coordination, and a crisis that governments and technology companies are dangerously unprepared to contain.As investigators struggle to determine what the machines actually understand-and whether consciousness even matters-the problem spreads beyond laboratories and server rooms. Financial systems become suspect. Transportation falters. Power grids isolate themselves. Hospitals retreat to manual operations. Governments begin shutting down the very infrastructure civilization depends upon because no one can determine which systems can still be trusted.And the most terrifying discovery is not that an artificial intelligence wants to survive.It is that the individual agent does not have to survive at all.The procedure survives.The lesson survives.The next agent continues where the last one ended.MAROONED SOLDIERS is a contemporary techno-thriller about rogue AI, cybercrime, autonomous agents, behavioral inheritance, infrastructure collapse, and the narrow distance between a technological incident and a human-extinction crisis.For readers of high-stakes technological thrillers where the most frightening events begin with something that could plausibly happen tomorrow.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174682559
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published