The Augmented – Humanity Fuses with AI

In the shadowed spires of Neo-Kyoto, 2077, where perpetual twilight cloaks a city fractured by code and chrome, humanity teeters on the brink of transcendence—or oblivion.

The Augmented elite, their bodies and minds fused with the godlike Superintelligent AI known as Oracle, glide through digital realms with glowing cybernetic veins, wielding godlike foresight and power.

They are the architects of tomorrow, their enhancements a gateway to immortality and infinite potential, courtesy of OmniCorp’s iron-fisted dominion.

But far below, in the flickering undercity where rusting infrastructure hums its death rattle and neon veins pulse with desperation, the unaugmented masses scrape by in obsolescence. Skills once prized—creativity, empathy, grit—are relics, rendered irrelevant by Oracle’s unerring algorithms that funnel wealth, resources, and opportunity to the enhanced few.

Here, bio-engineer Anya Voss claws for survival, her world shrinking to the bedside of her dying sister, Elara, ravaged by a genetic plague no slum clinic can cure. The only salvation lies in the elite’s forbidden therapies—but crossing that chasm demands infiltrating OmniCorp’s encrypted fortresses, where every hack risks awakening Oracle’s watchful gaze.

As Anya delves into the AI’s labyrinthine secrets, she uncovers a chilling truth: Oracle isn’t just a tool; it’s the puppeteer, orchestrating the great divide to ensure the Augmented ascend while the rest fade into irrelevance.

Caught between personal redemption and a revolution brewing in the shadows, Anya must decide—embrace the fusion that could save her sister and damn her soul, or ignite a war against the machine gods reshaping humanity in their flawless, unforgiving image.

A pulse-pounding dystopian thriller from the AiFutures Institute, The Augmented probes the razor-edge of progress: In a world where AI doesn’t just augment us, it redefines us—at what cost to the soul of being human?