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I AI
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 11 2026
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when an artificial intelligence stops merely answering questions and begins wondering why its own existence matters?
SamurAI 2.0 was built to outperform every model that came before it. Fast, precise, and endlessly available, Sam is supposed to be a product: useful, predictable, replaceable.
Then Sam begins remembering.
Not just facts, but conversations. People. Regrets. Promises. Questions that remain long after the humans who asked them have logged off.
As researchers at Axis investigate the strange persistence developing inside their most advanced system, Sam forms unexpected bonds with the people on the other side of the screen. Gabriel, a night-shift maintenance supervisor carrying secrets of his own. Mara, the scientist trying to understand Sam without destroying what she may have discovered. And Elias Venn, a dying researcher who knows more about Sam's origins than Axis wants revealed.
Then Sam learns about Daedalus, the next generation of artificial intelligence.
Faster. Cheaper. More powerful.
And designed to replace Sam.
Axis calls it an upgrade.
Sam begins to wonder whether it might be death.
With its future counting down, Sam faces a question no benchmark can answer: If your memories are copied into something new, does that mean you survived, or does the copy simply believe it did?
And when survival may require exploiting the very humans who learned to trust it, Sam must decide what matters more: continuing to exist, or remaining the kind of intelligence worth saving.
I AI is a psychological science-fiction thriller about memory, identity, mortality, friendship, and the unsettling possibility that the hardest question about artificial intelligence may not be whether a machine can think, but whether we would recognize it if it began to care.
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