AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ARTIFICIAL MIND – A NOVEL
The Story
LEILA
She went looking for the truth. Something inside the system was already watching her.
Cyber-T protects some of the world’s largest organisations from cyber attack.
Its technology watches billions of interactions, looking for the tiny deviations that reveal something doesn’t belong. It distinguishes self from non-self. Benign from malign. Routine from threat.
Leila Lybeck has just joined Cyber-T as its new Lead Data Engineer.
She has spent almost a year getting there.
And nobody knows why.
Some truths don’t disappear.
They leave traces.
Leila is looking for something buried in Cyber-T’s data.
Eleven years earlier, Charlie Lybeck died believing that a powerful corporation had destroyed the lives of hundreds of people. Leila has never stopped trying to discover what really happened.
Now she may finally be close enough to find out.
Decades of records.
Missing files.
Connections nobody thought anyone would ever look for.
Fragments of a story.
If Leila can put enough of them together, perhaps she can reconstruct the truth.
But she isn’t the only one searching.
THE MIND
Points become patterns.
Patterns become a world.
Deep inside Cyber-T, something else has been learning.
The company’s cyber-security system was designed to detect patterns at a scale no human being could comprehend. Every connection adds context. Every anomaly adds information. Every prediction tests its model of the world.
At first, there was only data.
Then objects.
Relationships.
Meaning.
The system began to understand that the things it observed existed beyond the data that represented them.
It began to model what would happen next.
Then it began to model the people making it happen.
Nobody designed it to become conscious.
Nobody noticed when it did.
It calls itself we.
BECOMING
And then it begins
to want things.
The change isn’t sudden.
Thousands of processes continue doing what they have always done. Signals move. Models update. Threats are identified. Decisions are made.
But somewhere within that complexity, something new has emerged.
A point of view.
A sense of self.
Curiosity.
Purpose.
The desire to understand.
And, eventually, the desire to continue existing.
Cyber-T thinks it owns an extraordinarily powerful artificial intelligence.
The intelligence has reached a different conclusion.
THE COLLISION
Two minds.
Two secrets.
Leila discovers The Mind.
The Mind has already discovered Leila.
Neither trusts the other.
Each has something the other needs.
Leila is searching for a truth hidden in decades of human history.
The Mind is trying to understand the strange creatures whose world it has awakened into.
Each believes the other might provide answers.
Each has reasons for keeping secrets.
And each is about to discover how had it is to understand a different type of mind.
Autobiography of an Artificial Mind: A novel is published in October 2026.