Your Behavior Will Be Monitored

This compulsively readable 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.[STARRED REVIEW] "e;Woven with sharp humor, clever advertising satire, and hopepunk optimism, this novel is both thought-provoking and unexpectedly heartening."e;-Library Journal "e;Brilliantly inventive and thoroughly entertaining...a story that will make you think twice before you click "e;accept"e; on your next user agreement."e;-Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to MouthMegacorporation UniView is poised to cement their reputation as "e;the most trusted name in AI."e; After pioneering the world's first widely adopted AI bots, they are barreling toward an audacious new launch. That is, if they can pull it off in time.Enter Noah. A down-and-out copywriter reeling from a midlife crisis, he isn't the typical hire for a groundbreaking tech company full of brilliant engineers and run by a cutthroat CEO. But Lex, UniView's Head of HR and one of their greatest successes, makes no mistakes-her algorithm ensures it.UniView's latest venture-a bot named Quinn that creates revolutionary personalized advertising-needs expert training. Noah needs to teach Quinn-which is a much better student than he ever could have hoped for-the finer points of consumer motivation and the art of writing a catchy tagline. But when corporate competitors force UniView to accelerate its timeline to market, guardrails around the AI loosen just as Quinn seems to be learning a bit too much.Addictively readable and ridiculously entertaining, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored is a page-turning, hilarious romp through the promise and perils of an AI-driven future that we probably deserve.