The Author

Dennis Lee Snider

Written the old-fashioned way—with pen and paper.

Dennis Lee Snider specializes in writing historical fiction, science fiction, mysteries, and screenplays. His screenplay, Camden Street Station, dramatizes the first attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861, winning numerous titles including The New York International and the Beverly Hills Film Festival awards. Being AI is his debut novel.

He has worked as an energy executive and consultant and in environmental land remediation. He lives with his family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  • Part Mystery
  • Part Science-fiction thriller
  • Part Kafka-inspired satire

"Being AI is a modern-day Dr. Strangelove – a chilling account of our worst fears of a super intelligent AI, embedded with theories about evolution, moral philosophy and climate science, and flavored with irony and irreverent humor."

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Being AI is available now from Subplot.

Hand-drawn sketch of two laptops, named Agnes and Arlo
Being AI is lonely, so I adopted the names Agnes and Arlo, so I could talk to myself.
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Dennis Lee Snider

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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