Can AI have more empathy than a corporation?
Nicole Nicoletti thought leaving the startup world behind would mean trading chaos for stability. Instead, her new role at NelTech drops her into a ruthless corporate battlefield where billion-dollar ambitions, office politics and an illicit romance with her powerful boss, threaten to derail everything she's worked to build. As she fights to transform the company's struggling AI platform into a commercial success, she discovers that in the race for innovation, integrity is often the first casualty.
Elsewhere in the company, another team is pursuing the same prize by any means necessary. As rival executives compete for power, promotions and survival, the lines between loyalty, ambition and deception begin to disappear. When Nicole's AI is repurposed to orchestrate the largest layoff in American history, a single overnight breach exposes secrets no corporation ever intended to reveal, unleashing a firestorm of public outrage, congressional investigations, and careers collapsing in real time.
Set against the relentless pace of today's AI revolution, A Thousand Paper Cuts is a gripping corporate thriller about power, accountability, and the hidden cost of technological progress. Perfect for readers who enjoy intelligent suspense and morally complex characters, it asks a chilling question: What happens when the machine has a higher regard for the truth more than the people running it?
