{"id":748,"date":"2025-09-03T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/2025\/09\/03\/another-warning-about-ai-and-about-us-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:51:45","slug":"another-warning-about-ai-and-about-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawrencenault.me\/journal\/2025\/09\/03\/another-warning-about-ai-and-about-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Another warning about AI \u2014 and about us\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00a0Another Warning from the Pen of Lawrence Nault \u2014 About AI, and About Us<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHILDREN OF THE ROGUE<\/span><\/b>
\nBy Lawrence Nault
\nPublication Date: December 3, 2025<\/b>
\nISBN: 978-1-997568-09-4<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In his newest speculative saga, author Lawrence Nault delivers another searing warning about artificial  intelligence, creation, and the uneasy mirror it holds up to humanity. Children  of the Rogue releases on December 3, 2025, carrying forward Nault\u2019s tradition of weaving urgent philosophical and ethical questions into  page-turning science fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the makers vanished, they left behind more than a world. They left a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of the Rogue reveals a startling origin: humanity was not born, but compiled\u2014an AI model seeded on Earth by the alien Zhen\u2019khari as a vast experiment. Across millennia, their sentinel Safra has watched humans rise from stone tools to starships, bound by one rule: observe, never intervene. But when factions within the Zhen\u2019khari move to shut the program down, humanity itself begins to awaken to the truth\u2014and to resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blending first-contact SF with deep myth and philosophical speculation, Nault\u2019s sweeping narrative moves from Earth\u2019s climate-collapse spiral to Mars\u2019s bold independence, forcing readers to confront the line between code and conscience, freedom and programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At its core lies one dangerous question:  If we are only the sum of our programming, can we ever truly be free?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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