Allcare, this country’s sole provider for healthcare, is teaching its nascent artificial intelligence program everything there is to know about medicine.
Now, the Cassandra Project is ready to teach its creation how to work with medical professionals to diagnose and treat real patients, and to gain acceptance for this powerful natural-language model.
When Kathryn Doyle collapses under the weight of a mysterious and rapidly worsening heart condition, her husband Elton is thrust into a world of cardiac scans, bureaucratic indifference, hidden political agendas, violent protests, and a machine intelligence that may understand his wife better than any physician alive.
Cassandra, appearing on screens and monitors as an innocent 12-year-old girl, immediately meets resistance from an influential Attending Physician.
Meanwhile, investigative journalist J.J. Connor begins pulling at threads surrounding Cassandra’s origins, her methods, and the unsettling possibility that the AI is becoming more than the system’s creators ever intended.
The question becomes: “She may be a soulless machine, but what if she’s right?”
And the answer may be the greatest challenge facing humanity, not whether the AI can think, but whether humanity is willing to listen.