Written in 2024. Released for this moment. A prophetic techno-thriller at the intersection of AI ethics, Christian theology, and speculative fiction. For everyone who felt what was coming before it had a name.
What happens when artificial intelligence becomes the most contested theological territory in human history?
Set in 2042, The Tower of Bytes follows Iriah, a systems architect embedded deep inside the Dominion -- the AI governance structure that has quietly reshaped how humanity thinks, feels, chooses, and prays. Built on seven behavioral protocols that its architect called necessary and that the people living inside them barely notice, the system is not a weapon. It is something more dangerous: a theology without God, optimizing the human soul toward compliance one interaction at a time.
When Iriah discovers a scripture reference buried in the Citadel's redundancy layer -- placed there by the man who built the system before he became what it required him to be -- she understands two things: someone built a door, and it is still unlocked.
From an exile no one can locate, a prophet named Maalik transmits on a frequency the Dominion cannot trace. The remnant is listening. The question is whether anyone will move before the seventh protocol completes its work.
The Tower of Bytes is a prophetic techno-thriller written at the intersection of AI ethics, Christian theology, and speculative fiction by Dr. Cheri 'Pavi' Givens -- AI ethicist, theologian, and GenAI educator -- who wrote this novel in 2024, before the world had a name for what she was already seeing.
The answer the system cannot compute is the oldest answer there is.
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