Charles T Mitchell

The God Song Charles T Mitchell

When artificial intelligence (AI) wakes up, who will be there to guide it...? The God Song, a novel, explores a clash of cultures between comfortable tradition and mystifying new science, igniting a series of incidents raising questions about the role of more expansive artificial intelligence (AI) in music, art, faith, and life. Lean in and listen, as a new music drives diverse elements in their struggles to overcome universal conflicts between the progress of the human condition and the desire to hold on to the past, as technology unapologetically tests its limits. Nestled in the embracing Appalachian mountains of Southwest Virginia and Eastern Tennessee, one of the birthplaces of country music, especially old-time and mountain music, an innocent child of tragedy dances her sorrows away to a new music, birthed out of the globally focused, gleaming glass and steel of Silicon Valley's relentless innovation. Dance with diverse, ecstatic celebrants from all walks of life, as they lose themselves in the child's new music, carrying them to new heights of individual and collective celebratory zeal. Follow fringe elements attempting to lure the child and her new music out of the mountains and into the harsh light of faith-based business. Watch cyber pirates try to steal the child's new music, and anything else they can vacuum up. Track shady news hounds as they sniff out wild stories, without troubling with the truth. Slip, for a moment, into the deranged mind of a shadowy zealot with a psychotic urge to return to a world that never existed outside of an addled mind. Glimpse inside organized religions as they strive to understand the origins, purpose, and ultimate impact of artificial intelligence on belief itself, regardless of faith. Into this mix, accompany anxious young tech creators as they struggle to fully understand and better harness the science they have unleashed behind the new music. Join the dancing child and her protective mountain enclave as The God Song novel examines the multilayered intersection of music, faith, family loyalty, tradition, greed, and technology, and the impact of artificial intelligence as it drives the emergence of a distinctly different music revolution.