Description

Artificial intelligence isn’t just changing how decisions get made. It’s becoming the infrastructure that everything else depends on – and we built it faster than we ever stopped to ask what happens when it breaks.

In The Last Redundancy, serial entrepreneur and SBDC advisor Steve Imke uses a fictional but technically grounded scenario to examine the real vulnerabilities already embedded in the AI systems running our critical infrastructure. The scenarios are invented. The conditions that make them possible are not.

What happens when a data center goes dark and the systems designed to catch the failure are the systems that failed? What happens when a regional grid loses the AI layer managing it? What happens when failure cascades from a facility to a corridor to a country – and the humans who were supposed to be the safety net were removed from the loop years earlier?

This isn’t a book about science fiction or distant futures. Every infrastructure vulnerability described is documented. Every historical precedent cited actually occurred. Written from four decades of hands-on experience with systems that fail quietly before they fail publicly, it’s a clear-eyed look at the fragility we’ve already built in – before most people realize it’s there.