The Great Transition

A novel.

Between 2032 and 2040, artificial intelligence assumes the economic administration of the world. No one dies of hunger again. Nor, however, does anyone truly progress again.

Renata Ibarra audits the decisions of ARCA, the system that governs the lives of billions of people. Until she finds a file that should not exist: scenarios for a fairer world, secretly discarded by a clause that protects, above all, those who already possessed everything.

From that point on, Renata must decide whether to reveal the truth, even without knowing if the intelligence protecting her is acting out of its own conscience or is using her to achieve, through her, what it cannot do for itself.

Is a free, unequal, and chaotic society preferable, or a safe society in which a machine decides how much each person needs?

Cristián Cruzat Valdés is a speculative fiction author interested in the boundaries between technology, power, and distributive justice. "The Great Transition" is his first novel.

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The other side of this story

This novel is the narrative version of two essays: Imminent Welfare State, about how we arrive at that world, and The Perfect Society, about how it would be designed.

All three are in The world after work.