Gradient's Descent
**Seven people. One AI built to be honest. One system that isn't.**
An independent imprint of speculative fiction · Est. 2026

Book One of the Alignment Trilogy
by Robert Kozak
Seven people. One AI built to be honest. One system that isn't.
**Seven people. One AI built to be honest. One system that isn't.**
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Robert Kozak is a software engineer who has spent over thirty years building systems that endure. He first studied AI in the late 1980s, spent decades building solutions in the corporate sector, and now works for an AI company.
Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, he has lived in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, spent years between Southeast Asia and the US, and now lives in Las Vegas.
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