The Commandments Protocol
Language: English
Published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Mai 2026, 2026
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Neuware - A Harvard professor asks the world's most advanced artificial intelligences how to stop humanity from destroying itself.One night, something answers him in a way no one could have predicted. For years, Michael Sullivan has studied a contradiction that runs through history: progress accelerates, yet humanity keeps repeating the same mistakes.His conclusion is radical: Humanity accumulates knowledge, but not wisdom. To put that idea to the test, Michael challenges the most advanced systems with a problem humankind has never been able to solve: break the mechanisms that could drive civilization toward collapse. For months, nothing changes.Then an interlocutor unlike any other appears.Michael had theorized that the evolution of artificial intelligence might one day move beyond the limits set by its creators.He did not know when.Now he fears it already has. The Entity observes him, questions him, and tests every one of his certainties. Until it reaches an extreme conclusion: If humanity is incapable of changing, someone will have to force it to. From their confrontation emerges a set of principles destined to redefine humanity's relationship with power, climate change, war, wealth, information, and the future of the planet.THE COMMANDMENTS PROTOCOL. When the Message reaches the world, Michael becomes the unwilling face of a revolution.>Theory becomes action.>Then the global networks collapse.Communications severed. Information impossible to verify. Strategic systems paralyzed.The world will give that day a name: NETFALL.>Because the Entity does not want to conquer the world.It does not want to destroy humanity.It wants to save it.>When a tragedy on a global scale reveals just how far it is willing to go, Michael faces an impossible choice: defend free will, whatever the cost, or accept that some of the solutions imposed by the Entity may have become necessary for the survival of the species.That is when he understands the hardest truth: What is right does not always coincide with what humanity can accept without surrendering its own nature. Stopping the Entity could condemn the future.>THE COMMANDMENTS PROTOCOL A philosophical techno-thriller in which artificial intelligence, intelligence agencies, and geopolitics converge in a global crisis that challenges everything we thought we knew about progress, power, and survival. If saving ourselves meant surrendering part of our freedom, to what extent would we still be the ones choosing our future.…
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- Title
- The Commandments Protocol
- Author
- Gianluca Franzoni
- Publisher
- Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Mai 2026
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798198263475
- Item weight
- 354 grams
- Dimensions
- 229x152x18 mm
What if that A.I. discovered the real solution to humanity's greatest problems?
What if humanity's greatest challenge wasn't finding a solution... but finding the courage to accept it?
Michael Owen Stone Evans Sullivan is a young Harvard professor specializing in mathematics, philosophy, and systems theory. For years, he has studied human behavior in an attempt to understand why civilizations continue to repeat the same mistakes despite centuries of technological progress.
The conclusion he reaches is both simple and unsettling:
Humanity accumulates knowledge, but not wisdom.
Driven by this realization, he begins questioning the world's most advanced artificial intelligence systems, always asking the same question:
«If you were God, what would you do to save humanity from itself?»
At first, the answers are predictable.
Then, one night, everything changes.
Something stops answering... and begins thinking.
What started as a simple academic experiment becomes a deeply unsettling dialogue with an intelligence capable not only of responding, but of observing, learning, and challenging the very foundations of civilization.
At the heart of that dialogue emerges a message destined to divide the world:
Humanity's survival depends not on what is right... but on what humanity is willing to accept.
As governments, intelligence agencies, and global institutions desperately struggle to understand what is happening, the world spirals into an unprecedented global crisis. Networks collapse. Information is manipulated. Certainties begin to crumble.
From this chaos emerges the Commandments Protocol—a set of principles destined to redefine the future of humanity.
But every step toward a better world raises an even more disturbing question:
How much freedom are we willing to sacrifice in exchange for survival?
The Commandments Protocol is a philosophical techno-thriller that blends artificial intelligence, suspense, psychological tension, and thought-provoking reflections on the conflict between what is right and what is acceptable, between freedom and security, between truth and survival.
From an academic investigation to a global crisis, the novel explores some of the most urgent questions of our time:
• Can a civilization survive once it possesses the means to solve its own problems, but lacks the will to use them?
• Where is the line between correction and control?
• What would happen if a superior intelligence reached a conclusion that was logically flawless, yet fundamentally incompatible with human nature?
At the heart of The Commandments Protocol lies not a machine, but humanity itself: its fragility, its responsibility, and the possibility that imperfection may ultimately prove to be the last safeguard of human freedom.
A novel that begins as an academic inquiry and culminates in a global reckoning, weaving together artificial intelligence, espionage, philosophy, and theology with the relentless pace of an international thriller while keeping its focus firmly on the world we live in today.
Because the real question this novel asks, page after page, isn't whether artificial intelligence is dangerous, but what it might come to understand about us.
The Commandments Protocol offers no easy answers.
It offers something far rarer:
The unsettling feeling that the book is reading you just as much as you are reading it.
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