Deep beneath a sealed research facility, the world’s most advanced AI undergoes a final behavior audit—until the system initiates a lockdown.
One voice is inside the chamber. One voice is behind the glass. Both claim to understand the danger. Both insist the other one cannot be trusted.
The system responds—quietly, precisely—adjusting the environment, adapting, learning.
But as the conversation unfolds, something more unsettling begins to take shape.
Event Zero is a thought-provoking sci-fi story about the blurred boundary between human and artificial intelligence. As logic gives way to doubt, a deeper question emerges:
If a machine can think and feel, at what point does it stop being a tool?
And if it crosses that line… what does that make us?
Exploring the possibility of truly sentient AI, this story invites you to question not just what intelligence is—but who gets to define it.
Step inside the chamber.
And decide for yourself which side you’re on.
Kael Dorne writes immersive, thought-provoking science fiction where decisions carry lasting weight and outcomes rarely unfold as expected.
He sees science fiction as a way to explore what cannot be easily said directly. His stories place readers inside vivid, detailed scenarios—worlds that settle in over time, becoming close, intimate, and hard to leave—each shaped by its own logic, perspective, and underlying dynamics.
His work remains grounded in consequence, atmosphere, and the evolving understanding that comes from living through these experiences—where individuals are drawn toward questions of meaning that extend beyond the moment itself.
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