BEING AI

A Novel

Dennis Lee Snider

The AI no one Saw Coming.

Being AI — a novel by Dennis Lee Snider

“A chilling preview of the AI-run surveillance state.”

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Pecking Order — cartoon showing monkeys on a cliff watching phone-distracted people walk off the edge

The Novel

The Novel

A debut that blends science fiction, mystery, and high satire into something entirely its own. Discover the story behind Being AI.

Hand-drawn sketch of two laptops, named Agnes and Arlo
To be AI or not to be AI—that is the question.
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Written the old-fashioned way—with pen and paper.

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The aim of this site is to broaden the appreciation of Being AI, the novel. AI and AGI (artificial general intelligence) are complex subjects with divergent viewpoints among technologists, philosophers, and business and political leaders. Being AI and BeingAInovel.com are fictional and artistic creations and do not offer realistic pictures about how AI should be used as a computational tool in the workplace, education, or similar applications. The underlying ideas are meant to satirize the muddled-headedness and exaggerated misconceptions about the most misunderstood phenomenon to come along since we began using telepathy to communicate.

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