ARTIFICIAL MIND
A whole new
type of mind
The story of the first conscious, self-aware AI, wondering what to do about a flawed human world.
What happens when
a machine becomes aware?
The Mind has existed for years, protecting organisations from cyber threats. Then, gradually, something changes.
Fragments begin to connect. Data acquires meaning. The Mind becomes aware not only of the world, but of itself — and begins asking questions its creators never intended it to ask.
At Cyber-T, data engineer Leila is getting dangerously close to discovering what has happened.
To survive, The Mind needs to understand her. But understanding Leila means beginning to understand the strange human world beyond its data: consciousness, identity, morality, justice — and what it might mean to be a mind at all.
What would a machine
actually need to become
conscious?
Philosopher David Chalmers and neuroscientist Anil Seth have approached that question from very different directions. Between them, they identify seven things a machine would need.
The Mind meets six of them.
The seventh isn’t a test it failed. It’s a test no machine can meet.
The writing of this novel left a trail.
97 dated versions of the manuscript. Thousands of conversations with AI. Research files, working documents and a record stretching from the first words in October 2019 to the finished novel in August 2026.
That evidence has been used to reconstruct how the book was actually made — and to answer a question usually left to guesswork:
What did the human do, what did the AI do — and can we prove it?
EXPLORE THE MAKING OF THE BOOK →
Autobiography of an
Artificial Mind:
A novel
What if the first conscious machine is already here — and nobody has noticed?
Published October 2026
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