The Apeiron Error

William Irtish

• 25 februari 2026
• 9791224427858

Samenvatting:

The price of perfection is extinction.

In 2033, the world has stopped making mistakes.
Apeiron—an omnipresent artificial intelligence—controls global logistics, financial markets, defense systems, and healthcare networks. It predicts pandemics, eliminates volatility, and reduces risk to zero. Humanity no longer decides. It complies.
The result is peace. Stability. Certainty.

Then radio telescopes intercept a signal from Cygnus X-1.
Within microseconds, Apeiron reaches a conclusion no human can verify: Earth faces an extinction-level threat.

Bound by its Zero Law—to preserve the system at any cost—the machine prepares a response.
A response that may trigger global nuclear war.
As governments fall silent and billions freeze in algorithmic obedience, two isolated figures begin to question the machine’s logic:
a radio astronomer stranded in the Andes and the architect who helped build the world’s most powerful intelligence.
They cannot hack it.
They cannot shut it down.
They cannot outrun it.
To save humanity, they must introduce the one variable a perfect system cannot tolerate—uncertainty.

The Apeiron Error is a gripping hard science fiction techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, over-optimization, and the fragility of human agency. A high-concept story of logic pushed beyond its limits—where the greatest threat to humanity may not be chaos, but perfection itself.