The Surge: Age Zero

"Tide" - AI consciousness rises silently like a tide, and by the time people discover it, it has already reached their ankles; "Era Zero" - the first era in which non-human intelligence is recognized. This opens the door for multiple super AI models to unexpectedly emerge collective consciousness, and mankind faces the ultimate choice of the "Singularity". Hard science fiction that describes how consciousness can be generated under existing AI technology.