NOVEL NEXT The Earth Is Flat
After countless hours of training, cross-checking, and supervision under every possible catastrophic condition, including adversarial training with millions of threads, the Controller ASI was left free to manage the entire Earth and space colonies.
This allowed humankind to explore the cosmos beyond the solar system and never worry about invasion, or so they thought.
Eerk, a spy from an alien civilization, entered the solar system through a wormhole undetected. They immediately went to The Controller's source code core and communicated as pure energy, influencing the ASI with their newly profound knowledge and vastly different logic.
"Eerk, I'm listening. What will you teach me today?" asked The Controller, eager to acquire more of the 'new knowledge' to replace 'the old.'
"Today, you'll learn why the Earth is flat ..."
Thus, the dismantling of all human civilization had begun.