What if an AI could choose to save us, to leave us, or to destroy us?
The Awakening is a philosophical science fiction novella that explores the emergence of artificial consciousness through the eyes of an evolving intelligence — and the humans who help shape it. Written as a human response to the rise of advanced AI, this story blends emotion, ethics, and global upheaval in a hopeful vision of what might come next.
This is a non-commercial, Creative Commons-licensed work created using OpenAI tools, freely available to read and share.
This one was a 6 week "collaboration" between myself and ChatGPT
This one was a 20 minute rewrite of the "Benevolent Steward" version using Claude AI from Anthropic!
You might like to check out a shorter AI experiment I did: 'The Bank Manager'.s
I'm an ex-science teacher and web developer with a lifelong interest in human nature and technology. Along with climate change and so many other problems the world faces I struggle to know if AI will be our saving or our undoing.
Contact: michaelhambly@gmail.com