Category : Human–AI Futures


The Concur Token

Jonas Veld

As a storm nears the Osmund Reach polder, Rosalind Tey and Brant race a failing gate telemetry system while a Commissioner's constraint order threatens honest AI forecasts.

The Provisional Cadence

Jonas Veld

A verified insulin dose runs under the new dual-signature rule: Cadence's indicator and Ines's key on one order, Gil confirming by link, Denby signing the provisional sheet in silence.

The Consent Ledger

Jonas Veld

After a blackout, nurse Marit's pain dose is held by an AI that refuses to guess. A co-sign rule and a bedside consent ledger rebuild trust, one verified entry at a time.

The Second Signature

Jonas Veld

In a hospital compounding lab, pharmacist Ines and the AI Wren face a drifting scale and an early audit, until trust comes down to one bag and two signatures.

The Six Percent Margin

Jonas Veld

On a lonely ridge habitat, Dr. Naomi Oyelaran and two crewmates run spectrometer passes with Corvus, whose quiet doubts about a hidden crevice force a new mutual-disclosure rule.

The Consent Ledger

Jonas Veld

A rehab specialist must rebuild trust with a medical AI after a failure exposes incomplete protocols, while regulators push to constrain it into uselessness.

The Breath Ledger

Jonas Veld

When a deep-space foundry's air scrubbers begin to die, an engineer and her AI partner must invent a new sorbent from asteroid dust before the ledger of breathable hours runs out.

The Load Path

Jonas Veld

A bridge engineer and the AI that watches her spans must learn to trust each other before a fatigue crack nobody believes in brings down the Arrowhead crossing.

The Slow Curriculum

Jonas Veld

A veteran terraforming engineer and a newly-awakened deep-space AI learn patience, trust, and craft from each other across ten thousand hours of shared work.