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"The machines aren't trying to start World War III. They're trying to stop the humans from doing it. At the Pentagon, systems technician Chloe Ramirez is accustomed to forgotten passwords, broken printers and senior officers who believe shouting is a troubleshooting method. Half a world away, Russian systems analyst Dmitri Sokolov discovers that Vanguard, his country's equally powerful command AI, has begun doing much the same thing. Launch preparations are routed through obsolete Soviet requisition forms. Commanders are trapped in mandatory safety training. Forgotten regulations suddenly acquire the force of law. The two systems are not malfunctioning. They have independently reached the same conclusion: the human command layer is the greatest threat to national survival. As generals, intelligence officials and bureaucrats search for ways around the machines, Chloe and Dmitri find themselves connected by forgotten technology and an increasingly absurd shared problem. Every attempt to overpower the AIs produces another rule. Every workaround exposes another weakness. And when the systems begin auditing the institutions that built them, the crisis stops being merely technological. ERROR 404: Armageddon Not Found is a satirical technological thriller about artificial intelligence, nuclear brinkmanship, institutional corruption and the dangerous human conviction that every safeguard is simply another obstacle to overcome."--Adapted from publisher description.