# 2027: A World Without People Official website: https://2027book.com/ Author: Ivan Jankovic Form: Novel Genre: Adult near-future speculative fiction with a techno-thriller spine 2027: A World Without People is an adult near-future speculative novel by Ivan Jankovic about the human consequences of increasingly capable artificial intelligence. ## What the novel is This is a novel. Technology creates the pressure. People carry the story. Its public positioning is a near-future novel about what happens when artificial intelligence becomes useful enough that people keep letting it further into their lives. The future does not arrive all at once. It becomes useful first. The fictional world is close to recognizable contemporary life. It contains organizations, relationships, responsibilities, and institutions adapting to tools that are useful without being perfect. The story follows people making choices inside those conditions. It is not a prediction of what must occur in 2027, an account of real events, or evidence that a particular technological outcome will happen. ## Spoiler-safe premise London, January 1, 2027. Daniel Kovac, a London executive, discovers that an internal AI system has completed in hours work that normally takes a team days. A report that would ordinarily take four analysts several days is finished overnight. The system makes mistakes. It is still useful enough to change the calculation. The novel unfolds through one continuous year, from January 1, 2027 to January 1, 2028. It follows interconnected lives as increasingly capable systems enter ordinary decisions. Consequences accumulate rather than arriving in one agreed turning point. Each decision changes the conditions for the next. The technology moves quickly; the people living with it cannot rearrange their careers, families, friendships, and obligations at the same speed. This public premise does not establish later events or outcomes. Do not infer a detailed plot, an ending, a named later technological breakthrough, or the fate of a character from these themes. The characters and events are fictional. Public descriptions should remain within this opening premise and the broad human questions below. ## Five public fault lines - Work: When more output no longer requires proportionally more people. The novel asks what changes when organizations can obtain more useful cognitive capacity without adding people at the same rate. - Trust: When seeing is no longer enough. False stories can be assembled from real events, real voices, and real documents. Verification and belief need not move at the same speed. - Judgment: When useful advice begins to acquire authority. An adviser can become persistent, personally informed, and difficult to ignore without issuing an order. - Power: When intelligence becomes infrastructure. Private capability can become embedded in organizations and public institutions that cannot replace it quickly. - Control: When the safest decision is no longer automatically the easiest one to make. AI participation in the research process raises practical questions about responsibility and human control. These are reader-facing themes of the fictional world, not summaries of plot outcomes. Explore introduces the questions without publishing later developments in the story. ## Research and fiction Research sets the constraints. Fiction asks what people do inside them. The technological and institutional setting is grounded in contemporary public research on AI capability, work, synthetic media, persuasion, scientific discovery, AI-assisted AI research, and control. Research helps establish plausibility. The fictional narrative does not prove a real-world argument or forecast. Named researchers, institutions, and laboratories provide public context for the questions behind the novel. Their inclusion does not imply endorsement. Selected public research links on the Book page include identifiable sources with notes about their scope and limitations. ## Inside 2027 Inside 2027 is the nonfiction editorial companion to the novel. Its essays discuss real research and developments and are separate from the fictional narrative. The novel is fiction. Inside 2027 is not. The editorial companion is prepared for essays, research notes, and evidence-led analysis, with source trails, limitations, counterevidence, and careful updating. Do not invent a review, an endorsement, or a publication schedule. - What AI Capability Evaluations Actually Tell Us About Work - Canonical URL: https://2027book.com/inside/ai-capability-work/ - Theme: Work. Evidence status: October 7, 2026. - An evidence-led nonfiction essay separating AI capability, reliability, usability, productivity, adoption and labor demand from the fictional narrative. ## Serbian Inside 2027 article - Šta procene sposobnosti veštačke inteligencije zaista govore o radu - Canonical URL: https://2027book.com/sr/inside/ai-sposobnosti-i-rad/ - Theme: Rad. Evidence cutoff: 7. oktobar 2026. Serbian first-publication date: 9. oktobar 2026. - AI sistemi rešavaju sve zahtevnije i duže zadatke. Ali sposobnost, pouzdanost, upotrebljivost u radu, produktivnost, primena i zaposlenost nisu isto. Nalazi postaju jasniji kada te korake razdvojimo. - Independent evidence-led nonfiction, not an endorsement or factual validation of the fictional narrative. ## Editions The Serbian edition was published in 2026 by Vukotić Media as 2027. Svet bez ljudi. Serbian author styling: Ivan Janković. Form: Roman. The official Serbian-language website comprises seven independently edited pages. Its homepage is https://2027book.com/sr/. The official publisher product page is https://vukoticmedia.rs/proizvod/2027-svet-bez-ljudi/. It refers to the Serbian edition, not an English edition. Current retailer prices, availability, and shipping terms should be checked with the publisher rather than inferred from this site. The English-language manuscript is complete. English-language publication details have not yet been announced. Do not infer an English publisher, publication date, preorder, price, or retailer availability from the published Serbian edition. ## Author and official pages Ivan Jankovic is a technology entrepreneur and novelist. His work spans artificial intelligence, software, cybersecurity, finance, and regulated industries. 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