{"id":10249,"date":"2019-01-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10249"},"modified":"2019-01-30T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:19:44","slug":"marauding-ai-its-only-the-end-of-the-world-by-j-a-henderson-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10249","title":{"rendered":"Marauding AI? It’s Only the End of the World! by J.A. Henderson (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Robots to do our chores
and <\/a>fight our wars<\/a>\u2026
Who’s giving the orders here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His dad took all their savings and disappeared – now he expects Charlie and this girl with the odd name to break a serial killer out of prison to help them save the world\u2026hmmm. Adventure and moral dilemmas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read an excerpt from the book here<\/a>, free courtesy of the Scotland-based publisher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artificial intelligenc<\/a>e is more than robots or household answer-giving devices – as AI keeps evolving, will pesky high-maintenance, environment-spoiling humans be worth keeping around?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: It’s Only the End of the World \/ J. A. Henderson. Kelpies Edge\/ Floris Books, 2018. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Book Talk<\/strong>: The girl hiding in his closet has a message from Dad who left last month – Charlie must stop an evil corporation from ending the world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlie’s boring parents were radical computer hackers before he was born, exposing corporate crimes – now Dad is back at it and has uncovered terrible things about Manticorps, including a serum giving superhuman strength to soldiers (and accidentally to Charlie).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Problematic that Daffodil can’t remember anything about her past and didn’t know that ‘Frankie’ giving her info was an artificial intelligence created by Manticorps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two Scots teens have to trust that Dad and Frankie are working for the good guys now, on the run as Manticorps’ hired assassins close in – because Frankie has been implanted in Daffodil’s neck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If AI has advanced this far, perhaps it’s only the end of the world for humans\u2026 what has money-hungry Manticorps invented?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robots to do our chores and fight our wars\u2026 Who’s giving the orders here? His dad took all their savings and disappeared – now he expects Charlie and this girl with the odd name to break a serial killer out of prison to help them save the world\u2026hmmm. Adventure and moral dilemmas! Read an excerpt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19],"tags":[90,22,11,20,5,70,16,18,40,44,43,71,184,31,200,35,33,58,3,6,28],"class_list":["post-10249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-mothers","tag-non-us-author","tag-scotland","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Its-Only-the-End-of-the-World.jpg?fit=188%2C287&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10266,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions\/10266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}