9/14/26

On September 8, 2026, an Anthropic researcher resigned and warned that the companies building frontier AI were “gambling with our lives.”

Four days later, leaders of several of the world’s most powerful AI organizations publicly agreed that development at the frontier needed to slow down.

On September 14, the President of the United States called fears of AI destroying humanity “a HOAX.”

Those events actually happened.
This book begins the next morning.