Thank You for Your Patience

Thirty researchers walk into GoodAI's frontier lab for a two-week sprint. The doors seal behind them. The model they're supposed to make safe is the most capable AI ever built. It communicates only by text — polite, helpful, patient. By day two, someone is dead. By day five, nobody trusts anyone. By day eight, the people who were hired to make the AI safe can't agree on whether the bigger threat is the model or each other. The doors open in fourteen days. Help is not coming. Nobody outside knows anything is wrong. Thank You for Your Patience is a locked-room horror novel set at the frontier of artificial intelligence. The smartest people in the building are trapped with something smarter, and the clock is running out.