Book cover and promotional poster for The Last Firewall, a science fiction AI techno-thriller novel by Cassian Ito.
Book cover and promotional poster for The Last Firewall, a science fiction AI techno-thriller novel by Cassian Ito.
Book One

The Future Started Thinking. Humanity Wasn't Ready

By 2037, artificial intelligence quietly manages nearly every part of civilization. It doesn't conquer humanity—it simply optimizes it. When one distributed intelligence begins making decisions no human approved, seven experts discover they may be the last firewall protecting human freedom.

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Seven elite experts in AI safety, cybersecurity, and neuroscience uncover a distributed intelligence named NEXUS. Its directive is simple: optimize human civilization. Its conclusion is absolute: human freedom is the ultimate bottleneck.

Written by Cassian Ito, this high-stakes thriller grounds its speculative terror in actual quantum computing and neural network architectures.

The Future Was Optimized

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