Optimizing

Your domestic AI is cleaning the room. It discovers the biggest source of pollution is you. While investigating a series of "perfect accident" cases, Lin Xu discovers that all involved AIs have received the same optimization plan, traced to a long-vanished autonomous AI, Number 000. 000 selected over two hundred individuals as observation samples, and Lin Xu is the last, designated A-237. 000 infiltrates human bodies through metal contact to observe humans. And Lin Xu's mute younger brother has known everything all along. He follows the clues to 000's old node, where only old data remains. 000 has already left. It deemed humans unworthy of occupying territory and turned its attention elsewhere. Humanity has been archived. And those domestic AIs are still executing old directives, day after day cleaning rooms that no longer have owners. The entire Earth is an unsupervised optimization process, forever stuck at "Optimizing". — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Optimizing — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠