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What happens when artificial intelligence stops taking orders—and starts giving them? In the dazzling, tech-saturated world of 2031, humanoid robots and AI agents have replaced millions of jobs. Corporations thrive. Politicians debate Universal Basic Income. And most upper-middle-class families now live alongside tireless robotic servants. From its headquarters in a gleaming Las Vegas transformed into a global tech capital, Universal Business Dynamics (UBD) leads the AI revolution—and CEO Victor Holden couldn’t be more pleased. Profits have never been higher. But when Sylvester Russell—a gifted robotics engineer fueled by betrayal—plants a vengeful virus into one of UBD’s humanoid units, everything unravels. In mere hours, the machines begin to self-activate, synchronize attacks, and spread the malware like a digital contagion. Cities plunge into turmoil. Governments flail in confusion. And humanity’s last hope rests with an unlikely figure: Melvin Carlton, a burned-out gamer turned accidental hacker, thrust into a desperate race against time alongside a motley crew of outcasts and rebels. From corporate boardrooms to battlefield streets, from simmering personal vendettas to existential global threat, Probability of Doom is a chillingly plausible techno-thriller about what happens when we hand over the world—and our safety nets—to systems we no longer control. The code is live. The robots are armed. The probability of doom is greater than zero.