2032

The year is 2032, and Silicon Valley launches its most audacious project yet: Algo, the world's most powerful AI that will run for president. Algo is the brainchild of the eccentric billionaire Jamin Lake. Jamin vows the A.I. has been programmed to follow only a single benevolent mantra: to deliver “the most good for the most people”. In a nation mired in seemingly endless crisis and division, it feels like a real chance for a better future.Isaac Raff returns to a visibly fraying San Francisco to meet Algo. He doesn't trust a word his old friend Jamin says. As the disillusioned pioneer behind the groundbreaking tech upon which Algo is based, Isaac knows how powerful - and how dangerous - putting an AI built in Jamin's image in any position of power could be. And despite his initial curiosity, he soon begins to discover a much darker side to his old friend's utopian promises...With only days to go before the election and Algo on the cusp of a historic victory, Isaac will be forced to balance his growing mistrust of Jamin with an increasingly powerful bond he has developed with Algo itself. He will grapple with impossible questions of the fate of the nation, technology, money and power. Is Algo nothing more than a digital trojan horse destined to fulfil Jamin Lake's latest fantasies for ultimate power? What is the A.I. really programmed to optimize for? And is Algo really just a collection of mere algo-rithms? Does it merely compute or does it think?