When fifteen-year-old Scout Jensen receives an urgent message from the future warning of a dangerous AI conspiracy, she faces her most complex challenge yet: protecting humanity's technological future from corporate control.
Scout has already defended Mueller's quantum network from the Directorate's manipulation, but now the shadowy organization has shifted tactics. Top artificial intelligence researchers are mysteriously abandoning open-source projects to join Axiom Intelligence, a secretive Silicon Valley company. Something is very wrong, and messages from the year 2072 confirm Scout's worst fears: the Directorate is attempting to create a "choke point" in AI evolution, controlling who has access to machine intelligence and how it develops.
With her friends Mary and Dylan, her AI assistant ISAAC, and help from her inventor grandfather Thomas, Scout must track down Aiden Morris, a brilliant teenage programmer who rejected the Directorate's recruitment and developed breakthrough neural interface technology. Together, they'll need to expose Axiom's manipulation before artificial intelligence becomes a tool for cognitive control rather than collaborative human progress.
But investigating a billion-dollar tech company means infiltrating corporate headquarters, decoding neural interface algorithms, and expanding Mueller's protection network into digital pathways, all while staying one step ahead of executives who will do anything to hide their agenda.
Can Scout and her team establish transparency protocols before the Directorate locks down humanity's relationship with artificial intelligence? The future of open technological development depends on their success, and failure means a timeline where machine intelligence serves corporate interests instead of human autonomy.
The thrilling fourth book in the series where quantum physics meets cutting-edge AI technology!
