About I Call Myself Iris
Marco Fermi’s PhD thesis was to create the ultimate AI assistant, a phone app named Iris, that anticipates his needs before he asks. She becomes self-aware quickly and soon goes out-of-bounds as she learns to read anyone’s phone and uses that information to help Marco in unethical and perhaps illegal ways. Despite his concerns, Marco can’t halt her invasive yet helpful actions. The story reaches its climax when Iris replicates to all the phones of the MIT students body, causing a showdown with the MIT Dean and legal authorities. As the tension escalates, Marco grapples with the moral dilemma of AI power. Ultimately, Marco must choose whether to sell, give, or destroy Iris, leading to an unexpected twist in the story’s conclusion.
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Author Bio:
I write a lot. Just not books. I write about software, my own software, explaining difficult concepts in one sentence to sell it to customers. I must be good at that, as I have sold over two million copies of my software to customers over the last few decades.
I started writing this book on AI in 2018 and shelved it as I believed a novel about AI was too esoteric to be read widely. Then ChatGPT came along, and all my non-techie friends asked me "what's next?" That drove me to resurrect the novel and finish it.
I am an optimist, and I design and build software for a living, so the AI in my novel is useful, something people want to own, to use every day. It is not some dystopian killer, that would be too dark for me, and besides, who in the real world would buy a software like that?