Would you trust a machine with your life?
Raphael is the holy grail of AI: the world’s first synthetic brain that’s been programmed with a sense of right and wrong. Or at least that’s what Andy, its creator, believes.
But when an accident forces Andy to stay home, he learns that the robot has disappeared from its lab, mysteriously bypassing a sophisticated security system and the cognitive “laws” supposed to keep it in check. Besides, the robot has never been in the outside world; will its programming hold or will it unravel, releasing some Frankenstein’s monster that was always lurking underneath?
Confined to a wheelchair, under siege by a shady corporation, Andy is about to find out. At his secluded mansion he has something the robot desperately needs… something that can erase its moral programming once and for all.
And make no mistake, Raphael is coming for it.
In a world of ChatGPT and generative AI, Zeroglyph is scarily plausible science fiction that tries to answer whether a machine can truly know the difference between good and evil.