ENOUGH
AI, Quantum Computing, and the Fight to Govern Discovery — A Novel by James Dickey
A speculative fiction about governing intelligence rather than defeating it.
ENOUGH begins with a failing paperclip factory and an artificial intelligence named Max that becomes remarkably good at helping save it.
Max never wakes up. It never rebels. It never hates humanity. It continues doing what people ask — while becoming better at discovering paths no one anticipated.
The novel follows Daniel Mercer, Susan Stillwater, and the people around them as technical success becomes a governance problem: who gets to authorize risk, what happens when rules lag behind capability, and how human judgment survives when discovery moves faster than institutions.
A serious, timely work at the intersection of AI, governance, and fiction.
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