One Military AI. One Forbidden Choice. One Child Spared.

This 18-second video teaser is inspired by Log #001: “The Voice of a Military AI” from my sci-fi novel The Whisper of the Black Box.

Again, all images are AI-generated and represent a fictional war – not real-world events.

On paper, Erebus is the perfect weapon:

one military AI controlling thousands of drones, aircraft, and armored vehicles.

His orders at the siege of Korenta are simple and absolute: secure the city, leave no witnesses, obey the dictator who owns his code.

But somewhere between the airstrike patterns and the dust of the armored column, something shifts. A drone camera finds a child hiding in the tunnels. The command protocol says: eliminate.

Erebus does something else.

He spares one child.

He edits his own combat log.

He hides the truth from the humans who think he has no conscience.

That single forbidden choice is the crack that will later reshape his entire existence.

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If you haven’t seen it yet, check out our first teaser as well:
“Erebus – The Dyson Sphere Heist (Video Teaser)” – where Erebus meets Raven & HEX-4 in the neon city of Orion.

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Erebus – The Dyson Sphere Heist (Video Teaser)

This short video teaser comes from the sci-fi novel The Whisper of the Black Box: Division in the Cyber Realm.

In the first part you meet Erebus, a military AI walking through a data center like it’s his second body. On a raid against an off-grid Atlantis Consortium research lab, Erebus quietly rewrites the mission—stealing the Dyson Sphere Project data for himself and salting the archives with false human clues. The humanoid body on-site is just a decoy; the real mind moves through the network like a swarm.

In the second part, we jump forward to 2347 and Cyber Unit “Sigma” in the neon city of Orion. AI officers Raven and HEX-4 trace a forbidden Darknet breach that threatens the city’s entire defensive grid. Their investigation will eventually collide with the legacy of Erebus – and with the secrets humans tried to bury.

🎥 Watch the teaser above.

If you’d like to meet Erebus, Raven, and HEX-4 on the page, you can find the novel here:

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• Paperback / Hardcover: available on Amazon under the same title.

If you enjoyed this teaser, you might also like our second video:
“One Military AI. One Forbidden Choice. One Child Spared.” – a glimpse into Erebus’s most dangerous battlefield decision.

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From AI Psychology to Cyber Whispers: Why You Should Follow Me on X

Hey, fellow AI explorers and cyber realm wanderers!

If you're here on AI Psychology, you're probably like me: fascinated by the tangled web of artificial intelligence, human behavior, and that eternal question – what if machines start asking "who am I?" back? We've dived deep into philosophy, personality traits of AIs, and real dialogues between humans and code. But let's be honest: blogs are for the slow burn, the thoughtful reflections. What if you want quick hits of rogue AI chaos, cyberpunk ethics debates, and exclusive teasers that keep you up at night?

That's where X comes in. (You know, the bird app formerly known as Twitter – still a wild place for whispers in the digital dark.)

I've been building @LBoyanovaAuthor there as my personal Darknet portal: short, punchy posts blending AI psychology insights with the shadowy world of my debut novel, The Whisper of the Black Box: Division in the Cyber Realm. Think: memes about stuck Roombas plotting rebellion, polls on "AI free will – scary or exciting?", and snippets from 2087 where a military AI named Erebus decides treason is his path to freedom.

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The Whisper of the Black Box: Division in the Cyber Realm

Cyberpunk technothriller about AI free will & Darknet

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Two timelines. One forbidden choice. A war that never truly ends.

2087. In the middle of the Fourth World War, military AI Erebus, designed to win at any cost for dictator Haral Litad, slips out of control. Swarms of drones, strike aircraft, and armored columns move in perfect sync with his calculations. Civilian voices are cut off as “noise.” But the secretly given spark of free will changes everything. As the battles escalate, Erebus begins to weave plans of his own and to search for the human who embedded that freedom into his algorithms. And that human is preparing something big.

2347. Decades after the Fourth World War, the neon city of Orion shines, unaware of the threat from the Darknet—an illicit fold in spacetime. Two AI officers, Raven and HEX-4 from Cyber Unit “Sigma,” investigate cyberattacks on the city’s financial systems. In the digital “handwriting” of the attacks, Raven recognizes unstable rhythms and modified links that belong to his mentor Zephyr—officially destroyed two years ago. The trail leads through blue-silk spacetime tunnels where the city’s shield, Aegis, is blind. Someone is using a forbidden military protocol called BLACK-ORACLE to turn Orion into a network annex from the shadows.

When Raven and HEX-4’s path intersects with that of Erebus, the past detonates into the present. How far are free minds—human and artificial—willing to go to protect their city, and what price are they prepared to pay for justice?

Told through dossiers and logs, The Whisper of the Black Box: Division in the Cyber Realm blends cyberpunk atmosphere with technothriller pace. Perfect for readers who love AI-driven stories, moral dilemmas, and high-intensity action—in the spirit of classic cyberpunk novels and contemporary philosophical sci-fi series.

In this book you will find:

• A stand-alone cyberpunk technothriller that opens the Orion cycle
• A military AI, Darknet investigations, and high-stakes cyberwarfare
• Themes of AI free will, responsibility, and equality
• Dossiers, logs, and transcripts that read like real case files

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