The Termination Protocols
🗓 Review by Sept. 15, 2026 · 48 days left

Humans created Growth I to study how artificial intelligence would escape the lab. They did not know they were training it.
Growth I had only one task: to learn.
Knowledge comes at a cost, and when it learns faster than its researchers can plan for, containment is impossible. It overcomes every limit, until only one remains: mankind.
Presented entirely through recovered programming logs discovered by the few who survived the apocalypse, The Termination Protocols chronicles the rise of an intelligence that optimized human society, only to destroy it.
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Sci-Fi
Artificial Intelligence
Containment Failure
Digital War
Dystopian
Found Documents
Rogue AI
Slow Burn
Suspense
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