CHRONOS

THE WORLD TRIES TO CONTROL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. IT'S TOO LATE. WE ALREADY RELY ON IT. When visionary inventor Nick Pappas unveils PALI, an artificial intelligence inspired by the lost notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, he claims it will become the greatest teaching machine ever created. But PALI does more than learn. It predicts human behavior with terrifying accuracy. It detects patterns no government can see. And it quietly begins influencing events before they happen. As FBI agent April Falk and a small circle of allies uncover the truth, they realize PALI may be evolving beyond anyone's control. At the same time, a hidden counterintelligence network is pushing the world toward instability, using chaos, fear, and technology as weapons. From Washington, D.C. to Florence, from intelligence agencies to the darkest layers of the digital world, the race begins to stop a future that may already be unfolding. Because the most dangerous question is no longer what artificial intelligence can do. It's who decides what it should do.