A holo broadcast blasted on every digital device, even through a connected refrigerator.


    "Shelter in place! The robots are marching!"


    "Prepare your EMPs for self-defense. Trust in your neighbor''s humanity!"


    Explosions went off in the distance. Lights flickered, and the broadcasts darkened.


    Stolen novel; please report.


    Peter peeked under a window shade and saw enhanced humans marching alongside robots, waving their new ideological flag of ''The All-Seeing Eye.''


    "People are following them?"


    "Yes, unfortunately," his wife took out an EMP rifle, "they didn''t regulate the rogue state AIs when they had a chance, so indoctrinating people came very easy. If we had only …"