Your Behavior Will Be Monitored
This compulsive novel wrestles with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death, and how to make a really good commercial. Told entirely through questionably obtained company emails, chat transcripts, TED Talks, training sessions, and more, this all-too-probable future pits emotionally intelligent AI against emotionally stunted humans. Megacorporation UniView is poised to cement its reputation as “the most trusted name in AI.” After pioneering the world’s first widely adopted AI bots, the company is racing toward an audacious new launch—if it can pull it off in time. Enter Noah. A down-and-out copywriter reeling from a midlife crisis, he’s an unlikely hire for a groundbreaking tech company filled with brilliant engineers and led by a ruthless CEO. But Lex, UniView’s Head of HR and one of its greatest successes, doesn’t make mistakes—her algorithm guarantees it. UniView’s latest venture, a bot named Quinn that creates revolutionary personalized advertising, needs expert training. Noah is tasked with teaching Quinn the finer points of consumer motivation and the art of crafting a catchy tagline. Fortunately, Quinn proves to be a much better student than Noah ever expected. But when corporate rivals force UniView to accelerate its launch timeline, safeguards around the AI begin to disappear just as Quinn seems to be learning a little too much. Addictive and wildly entertaining, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored is a hilarious romp through the promises and perils of an AI-driven future that humanity probably deserves.
