Under the Blue

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A road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe towards Africa and the hope of a safe place. Is this the end of the world? Meanwhile, two computer scientists have been educating their baby. His name is Talos, and he is an advanced AI program. Every week they feed him data, era by era, and ask him to predict what will happen next to the human race. At the same time they're involved in a increasingly fraught debate about why human life is sacred and whether the purpose for which he was programmed, to inform us of threats to our existence, is ethical