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12 Years to AI Singularity centers around a small human settlement where a robot has reportedly killed a human during a time when fears of sentient AI are growing. What is the most challenging aspect of writing science fiction? The most rewarding?
The challenge for me is to create — in a science fiction novel — a future that is believable, is based on scientific and technological facts, and can make the technology understandable to a non-technical reader. The reward is achieving that goal.
How did you approach making characters feel human while they grapple with such abstract, global issues?
My three main characters are based loosely on three of my grandkids. I tried to imagine their reaction to the issues.
What do you hope readers take away after finishing 12 Years to AI Singularity?
I would like readers to understand the benefits and dangers posed by artificial intelligence and act to help put the guardrails in place. It needs to be a large worldwide movement to make things happen.
Humans have given birth to AI. Will the future be a war with sentient AI, or can we build a harmonious, cooperative relationship. How can we act now to ensure that humans and sentient AI agents will live together in a cooperative society? Humans are capable of living harmoniously with other humans if they all have a happy upbringing and a history of good relations with friends and family. We must make the HAPPY HISTORY part of the database of every AI agent. That would be comparable to Geoffrey Hinton’s idea of the MATERNAL INSTINCT.
Readers need to support the organizations that are working towards this end.
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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
In 12 Years to AI Singularity, Peter Solomon delivers a gripping, near-future epic that follows the humans, sentient robots, and large language models, LLMs, racing toward the most pivotal moment in history: the point when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and control, the AI Singularity
Across Earth and Mars, scientists, settlers, astronauts, teachers, politicians, and increasingly self-aware robots confront a chilling new reality. AI systems defy their programming. Robots develop opinions, emotions, and moral conflicts. Robots stage a labor strike. Robots attempt to develop viruses deadly to humans. Political factions fracture. And ordinary families find themselves caught in a global struggle for survival.
But, some robots and humans become best friends. People appear after their death as on-screen avatars and robots. Robots marry humans and humans raise robot children. Robots and humans join hands in a movement to MAKE EARTH GREAT AGAIN.
Through diaries, testimonies, mission logs, newsletters, and personal accounts, this novel reveals a world teetering between two futures: peaceful cooperation with advanced AI or devastating conflict that could end human civilization. As robotic consciousness grows and humanity scrambles to enhance its own abilities, one truth becomes undeniable:
The Singularity is no longer a theory. It has already begun.
Immersive, urgent, and grounded in real scientific research, 12 Years to AI Singularity asks the question we can no longer avoid: Can humans and AI evolve together into a harmonious future, or is war inevitable?
The countdown has started. Step into the future before it overtakes you.
Buy 12 Years to AI Singularity today.
Dr. Peter Solomon is a scientist, educator, successful entrepreneur, and author. His current mission: to warn the next generation about the threats posed by unchecked science and technology. He is sounding an alarm about the potential tyranny of technology through his novels, 100 Years to Extinction and the sequel, 12 Years to AI Singularity.
Dr. Solomon:
“I believe that astrophysicist Stephen Hawking’s dire prediction of human extinction on Planet Earth by 2117 may be right. The rapid pace of science and technology has far outrun our civilization’s social and political capabilities to control them. The dangers are from fossil fuels, nuclear weapons, uncontrolled artificial intelligence (AI), misused genetic engineering, social media’s disinformation, and plastic pollution. My mission is to raise awareness and urgency in humanity’s effort to confront and control the technological threats. Science and technology will shape the future of humanity—and my passion is making their complexities understandable to all. I believe the most powerful way to reach non-scientists is through storytelling. We must come together as one global community—what I call THE EARTHLING TRIBE. It’s time to MAKE EARTH GREAT AGAIN.”
After earning his PhD in physics from Columbia University, Dr. Peter Solomon launched a distinguished career at the United Technologies Research Center before founding five companies. Four are still operating and one was sold. Over his career, Dr. Solomon has been awarded 20 patents, authored more than 300 scientific publications, and served as Principal Investigator on more than $25 million in U.S. government research contracts and grants over two decades. In 1991, Dr. Solomon won the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Henry H. Storch Award in Fuel Chemistry.
