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I Am AI: A Novelette

by Ai Jiang

Humanity and efficiency in a cyberpunk city

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Hugo Award finalist for Best Novelette

    Finalist for Best Novelette

AlbakiReads Editorial

Humanity and efficiency in a cyberpunk city

The novelette frames a question of identity through Ai, a cyborg concealed as an AI writing program. In Emit, a city described as relentlessly advancing, her effort to keep pace brings the trade-off between human limitations and mechanical capability into focus. The premise connects that personal struggle to cyberpunk’s interest in technology, concealment, and the costs of adaptation, without settling the question posed in the description: what might be gained—or surrendered—by choosing efficiency and invulnerability over humanity?

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adult readers interested in cyberpunk fiction and cyborg characters.
  • Readers drawn to speculative questions about AI, human identity, and technological enhancement.

Themes

Humanity and technological enhancementAI and cyborg identityEfficiency and invulnerabilityAdapting to technological change

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Book overview

"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human." -Samit Basu, author of Turbulence

★ Finalist - Hugo Award for Best Novelette

★ Finalist - Nebula Award for Novelette - Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association

★ Finalist - Locus Award for Novelette

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you?

Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an AI writing program, who struggles to keep up with the never-blinking city of Emit as it threatens to leave all those like her behind.

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