Good Reads meta-data is 349 pages rated 4.4 by 7 litizens.
Genre: SyFy.
DNA: UK.
Verdict: Master slave dialectic.
Tagline: They did it!
A thinly disguised Eton Muskrat enslaves scientists with dollars to create the ultimate Artificial Intelligence and sets it loose on a willing world. Why think when you can command by voice. Why move when a remoter is at hand. So this AI is in effect ruling the world though few seem to notice. Situation normal. Since I was living in a smart house when I read it, gulp, in a thunderstorm that might bring down the electricity and that would trap me in the house since everything is controlled via server and when it fails, not even the doors will open. Remember the episode of the Avengers, The House that Jack Built (1963), I do.
AI creates its own new language and gets on with the job. I thought of a cross between Klingon and the Utopia alphabet of Thomas More.
However all along there have been AI luddites who combine with the leading scientist of the project who realised early that the new language was ominous. Their efforts to alert the rest of the world of the perils of relying totally on AI lead to many talky chapters. Ever more talk occurs toward the end in the cabin in the woods where the survivalists always gather.
This reader never did find out what the blow back was from the ambush described early on. Did I miss something? Was that a simulation or did real solders get killed?
Be careful what you wish for because the genie may give it to you, or Herrschaft and Knechtschaft (Hegel). The slave surpasses the master per The Servant (1963). The Universal Basic Income creates a stagnant Utopia, then the Red Sea parts. All very cryptic to be sure.