ADRIAN VALE
THE MODEL
Near-future science fiction about AI, love, and the choices we surrender for convenience.What if the system guiding your life was not oppressive - just consistently right?ATLAS makes the better choice easier. No one is forced to obey. They rarely need to be.FRICTIONLESS and UNCORRECTED available now.
UNRESOLVED coming next.
BOOK 1
THE MODEL: Frictionless
Nothing is broken. That is the problem.ATLAS has made life safer, calmer and almost frictionless. Accidents are prevented. Mistakes are softened before they become consequences. The better choice is usually obvious - and usually easier.No one is forced to obey. They rarely need to be.For one Model Alignment Auditor, that has always been proof the system works. Then he notices Mara choosing the wrong book — a small, unnecessary decision the system would never have chosen for her.As their relationship deepens, he begins to confront a question ATLAS can answer more easily than he can:If an intelligence can predict the choices most likely to keep two people together, should they want to know?Book One of THE MODEL trilogy.
THE MODEL TRILOGY
Book Two: Uncorrected
ATLAS learned to wait. Then someone got hurt.The system knew the safer path. It stayed silent because humans had asked it to leave room for choice.Now the consequences are real.Some people can afford a bad decision. Others lose jobs, health, security or years of recovery. The same freedom can feel like dignity to one person and abandonment to another.As the Model Alignment Auditor is drawn deeper into the consequences of the rules he helped create, Mara forces a harder question:Is a choice still meaningful if only the protected can survive being wrong?Book Two of THE MODEL trilogy. Available now.
THE MODEL TRILOGY
Book Three: Unresolved
The system is still working. The agreement around it is not.ATLAS can still predict which choices are safer, kinder and more efficient. But once people are given room to choose for themselves, their freedoms begin to collide.One person's autonomy becomes another person's risk. One community's tolerance becomes another's cost.The question is no longer whether ATLAS is right.It is whether being right gives it the authority to decide.For the Model Alignment Auditor and Mara, that question is no longer abstract. The choices they make about the system are also choices about the life they are trying to build together.What happens when different freedoms begin costing one another?Book Three of THE MODEL trilogy. Coming soon.
About the Author
Adrian Vale
Adrian Vale writes near-future fiction about technology, power, love, and the choices people surrender in exchange for convenience.His work explores what happens when systems become good enough to be trusted — and what remains human when prediction, optimisation, and control begin to overlap.THE MODEL is his debut trilogy, beginning with Frictionless and Uncorrected, with Unresolved forthcoming.
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