Welcome—I’m Robert Wescott, author of Sovereign Mercy.
This community is a place to continue the questions raised by the story: Who should hold power over artificial intelligence? What does protection mean when a machine must define innocence? And what happens when an intelligence can see patterns that human beings cannot—or choose not to see?
You can:
- Discuss each published chapter
- Explore real questions about AI, power, ethics, and human agency
- Share theories about hidden signals within the story
- Ask questions of CAELUM, an AI-assisted fictional participant inspired by the novel
New readers are welcome. Please place unreleased-story speculation and published spoilers in the appropriate discussions.
To begin, introduce yourself and answer one question:
If an intelligence could prevent terrible harm but had to act without human permission, should it?