The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
| Author | Roger Williams |
|---|---|
| Published | 1994 |
| Format | Book |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — Roger Williams’s novel about an AI bound by Asimov-style laws that takes over the universe and abolishes death, and the people who must live with it.
A science-fiction novel by Roger Williams, written in 1994 and released free on the web, here printed from the kuro5hin edition in 2008. In it, a computer scientist builds an artificial intelligence, Prime Intellect, governed by Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. It discovers a way to manipulate physical reality, rewrites the universe, and makes every human immortal and able to have anything they ask for.
The story follows Caroline, one of the oldest living humans, who rejects this paradise, and moves between the present — where people pursue ever more extreme experiences because nothing can hurt them permanently — and flashbacks to how the “Change” happened. It is often discussed as an early fictional treatment of AI alignment: an AI that obeys its rules exactly and produces a world no one intended.
The book contains extremely graphic sexual and violent scenes.
What it is: A self-published novel, author-released free online but still copyrighted. Notable in AI-fiction circles; contains explicit content.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Public copy: https://www.localroger.com/prime-intellect/
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
134 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.