Adverse Reactions
When your mind makes you the enemy, either your mind must die, or you will. Unless yours is the mind they can’t break.Adverse Reactions by Deborah J. Lightfoot Genre: Dystopian Paranormal SuspensePurity demands a bullet. Devin brings a reckoning. Since she was six years old, Devin Perridin has been locked behind the walls of the family home to keep her hidden from those who would kill her. But at sixteen, she is exposed as a "Syke," one of an outlawed minority who possess […]https://reluctantretireebookreviews.com/2026/04/20/adverse-reactions/
Non-exhaustive list of Sci-fi where there's an existential warning against AI/Neuro-Internet Implants.
Stargate, Revisions, S7Ep5
Star Trek, The Borg (race)
Dr Who, Cyberman (race)
Stargate, Replicators (race)
X-files, Ghost in the Machine, S1Ep7
X-files, Kill Switch, S5Ep11
Dr Who, The Long Game, S1Ep7 (not strickly AI control, but synonymous)
Futurama, Attack of the Killer App, S6Ep3 (Not strictly AI)
TIL Dollhouse― will need to watch.
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