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 […]

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If you like #dystopian #sciencefiction #literature with teeth, you'll love the book Kirkus Reviews calls "...riveting and frighteningly plausible," and Reader's Favorite calls “…supremely intense and fantastically imaginative." https://www.amazon.com/One-Grain-Sand-Shards-Shattered/dp/B0F6H26P3M/
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Why having “humans in the loop” in an #AI #war is an illusion
We don't really understand AI's inner workings, so we're effectively flying blind.
AI is no longer just helping humans analyze intelligence. It is now an active player—generating targets in real time, controlling and coordinating missile interceptions, and guiding lethal swarms of autonomous drones.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/
https://archive.ph/4uJMi
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Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion

We don't really understand AI's inner workings, so we're effectively flying blind.

MIT Technology Review

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.
#AI #Dystopian #Warning

The Informant Problem: Betrayal in Dystopian Fiction
https://boldly.blue/the-informant-problem-betrayal-in-dystopian-fiction/
The villain announces himself. The informant already has your key. Why betrayal is dystopian fiction's most devastating structural move — Orwell, Atwood, Zamyatin, Levi.
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The Informant Problem: Why Betrayal Is Dystopian Fiction's Most Devastating Structural Move - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

The villain announces himself. The informant already has your key. Why betrayal is dystopian fiction's most devastating structural move — Orwell, Atwood, Zamyatin, Levi.

David Somerfleck
What 2096 Could Look Like If We Don’t Act Now - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

A lyrical, data-grounded vision of America in 2096 — the plausible, peer-reviewed future hiding inside today’s headlines — drawn from the research that underlies dystopian science fiction Shards of a Shattered Sky trilogy.

David Somerfleck

We’re at that point in the dystopian nightmare timeline we’re currently riding when glp1 drugs are starting to turn us all into slow moving brain sucking shamblers

#dystopian #hellscape