Red Heart
by Max Harms
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Pub Date 3 Nov 2025 | Archive Date 18 Dec 2025
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Description
Her meets Three Body Problem in this speculative thriller from a leading voice in AI research.
Years after leaving his homeland, Chen Bai returns to China with a mission: infiltrate the government's top-secret AI lab and siphon its research to the CIA. Cloaked in the guise of an AI alignment expert, Bai lands a job at the clandestine lab hidden deep within the mountains of Guizhou. There he discovers Yunna, the world's first artificial general intelligence.
Rather than being the terrible weapon he expected, Yunna's capabilities seem to promise a harmonious future for humanity. Yet as Bai grows closer to the AI, he worries both the Chinese and Americans view her as a mere tool, rather than an entity with an unprecedented ability to bring peace.
Caught in a dangerous web of conflicting ideologies, Bai must decide where his loyalties lie: with the homeland that raised him, the Westerners who offer him revenge, or with the machine who promises to heal both his soul and society.
Advance Praise
“A strikingly authentic portrayal of AI in modern China — both visionary and grounded in cultural truth. This is AI fiction at its finest.”
— Zhang San, Senior AI Executive
“[Red Heart’s] key strength is its grounded and realistic treatment of AI alignment, corrigibility, and geopolitics. AGI will transform the world in the near future and Red Heart gives us a glimpse of how.”
— Xerxes Dotiwalla, AI Alignment Researcher at Google DeepMind
“A thrilling spy novel grounded in realistic AI safety research and geopolitical possibilities.”
— Nathan Helm-Burger, AI Alignment Researcher
“[Red Heart] reveals an intimate familiarity with the cultures, habits, and tastes of the country in which I was raised, all displayed without the common pitfall that is the tendency to exoticize.”
— Alexis Wu, Chinese Historical Linguist and Translator
“Red Heart is the most technically accurate novel about AI, and its characters feel just as real as its science.”
— Forrest H Bennett III, AI Researcher and Founder
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