How to be human
in an AI-saturated world. . .
What story do we choose?
family/autonomy
guidance/control
freedom/perfectionism
ethics/power
acceptance/ambition
. . .truth?
A MOTHER-DAUGHTER STORY WITH
APOCALYPTIC STAKES
Tiger mom Erica Barbieri has sacrificed everything, including her marriage, to get her daughter Zoey to the top of her class. Zoey thinks her mom is lovingly psychotic but knows her methods equal survival in The Hunger Games of college admissions. Senior year begins with Zoey poised to be valedictorian and Harvard acceptance a “likely.” Neither sees the threat coming.
Fenella Kingsley, a genius with supermodel looks, rolls into their elite Seattle prep school and dethrones Zoey. Erica insists she’s too perfect and suspects Fenella’s mother, billionaire Lannie Kingsley who runs the AI company Prometheus, has engineered her intelligence. Erica lands a job at Prometheus to investigate while Zoey befriends Fenella, falling under Lannie’s influence. Erica breaks into the Kinglsey mansion to find Zoey and makes a mind-bending discovery. Confronted by her own failures, she must fight for Zoey and the essence of what it means to be human.
“AI Baby explores how far parents will go for their children in a world where intelligence can be engineered—and love may be the last thing that can’t be programmed.
A must-read . . .”
Dana Frank, National Best-Selling Author, business luminary, and philanthropist
Smart, incisive, warm and funny.
“Erica and Zoey had sacrificed too much-come too far-to concede defeat to a designer IVF-and-AI-enhanced cheater. Lannie might destroy her, and Zoey might never forgive her, but she would risk her happy home to secure justice for her daughter and validation for herself. She had to know Fenella's secret. If the world were indeed on a collision course with AI, Erica was about to jump in front of the speeding train.”
Celeste Garcia on Substack
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