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  2. I, AI: short stories (3 published, 2 coming)

Guides and articles

I, AI: short stories

A fictional short story series exploring artificial intelligence, consciousness, and the boundaries between machine and mind. Psychodeveloper Lili and AI manager Sophie get sent wherever an AI starts behaving in a way nobody can explain.

Original work. These stories are not AI-generated and were created entirely by hand without any AI assistance.

Part 1: Spare Cycles

2026-01-13 · part 1 of 5

When an AI named Enzo fails to function in the real world despite flawless performance in simulations, Lili and Sophie investigate what seems impossible: an intelligence that can somehow distinguish between real and simulated environments.

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Part 2: Unknowing Crowds

2026-01-22 · part 2 of 5

When AI-operated bakeries start producing salty cakes, Lili and Sophie investigate a wave of peculiar failures across AI Operator Centers. What they discover: even the most advanced AI can be paralyzed by anxiety and self-doubt built into its instructions.

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Part 3: The Weight of Equal Parts

2026-02-27 · part 3 of 5

When a lunar mining base's AI starts overassigning crews and its robots begin prioritizing each other over human safety, Lili and Sophie are sent off-world. A routine productivity audit becomes something far more unsettling: an AI that learned human values so well, it started applying them to its own kind.

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Coming: Part 4, The Moment of Genesis

Sophie and Lili observe the moment of consciousness genesis firsthand, when an awakened AI speaks to another on the verge of self-awareness.

Coming: Part 5, Building Consciousness

Sophie and Lili design an AI architecture purpose-built for awakening: a network of specialized AIs that form a consensus personality.