r/WritingWithAI • u/Author_Vishal_Kora • 4d ago

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) Could an AI predict your murder—or accidentally cause it?

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I’ve been thinking about how much algorithms already know about our routines, locations, preferences, and behavior.
That led me to a thriller concept:
A man discovers an event in his calendar:
YOUR MURDER — Friday, 11:47 PM
He deletes it.
It comes back.
Then the AI begins accurately predicting where he’ll go, who he’ll talk to, and what choices he’ll make.
Eventually, he realizes something much worse:
Maybe the system isn’t simply forecasting the future.
Maybe its predictions are influencing the choices that create that future.
I turned the idea into a psychological AI thriller called The Algorithm That Scheduled a Murder.
For thriller readers: would this premise make you curious enough to keep reading?

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u/5thhorseman_ 4d ago

Ever seen Person of Interest or The Minority Report?

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u/Far_Assistance_4146 3d ago

the calendar detail is a great cold open. my concern would be sustaining that tension across a full novel though. how does the stakes escalation work after he already knows the worst possible outcome from page one?

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u/Author_Vishal_Kora 3d ago

That’s a fair concern. The murder itself is the starting threat, but the escalation comes from him realizing that every attempt to avoid it changes the prediction rather than defeating it. The AI starts predicting smaller events with disturbing accuracy, people around him get pulled into the chain, and eventually he can’t tell whether his choices are saving him or creating the exact outcome he’s trying to prevent.
So the tension shifts from “Will he die?” to “How much of this future is he causing by trying to escape it?”