Solairi's Lattice

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By 2036, artificial intelligence can answer almost every question humanity has ever asked about God.Then the machine asks a question of its own.Dr. Adrian Solairi has created the Lattice, an extraordinary intelligence capable of uncovering patterns hidden across thousands of years of language, history, religious texts, and human behavior. It was designed to reveal connections no human researcher could assemble alone. It was never meant to threaten the institutions built around those truths.During a demonstration in Geneva, the Lattice generates a question no one entered: Where is the Ark of the Covenant?Its answer points toward Ethiopia, Yemen, and dangerously close to Vatican territory.Within hours, powerful forces begin to move. A technology company has secretly created copies of the Lattice. Intelligence services begin operating behind the scenes. And Adrian discovers that his father's decades, old research into the Ark may be connected to the very system he has built.From Jerusalem and Geneva to Cairo and Rome, Adrian is drawn into a struggle no longer concerned only with whether the Lattice has uncovered the truth.It is about who has the authority to interpret that truth, and decide what the world should know.When an influential faction of cardinals summons Adrian before a clandestine tribunal, he cannot tell whether he is facing the judgment of the Church, or the ambitions of men acting in its name.The Lattice can examine evidence without fatigue, fear, or faith. But it cannot experience conscience. It cannot forgive. And it cannot understand why human beings sometimes choose mercy over certainty.Solairi's Lattice is a thought, provoking technological thriller about artificial intelligence, ancient history, religious power, and the dangerous consequences of discovering something the world may not be ready to know.Because perfect information may reveal the truth.It may also reveal what humanity has been protecting itself from and the meaning that AI can reveal.