“AI Baby explores how far parents will go for their children in a world where intelligence can be engineered—and love may be the last thing that can’t be programmed. A must-read.”
— Dana Frank, Best-Selling Author of Get Up And Get On It
Tiger mom Erica Barbieri has sacrificed everything, including her marriage, to get her daughter Zoey to the top of her class. Zoey thinks her mom is lovingly psychotic but knows her methods equal survival in The Hunger Games of college admissions. Senior year begins with Zoey poised to be valedictorian and Harvard acceptance a “likely.” Neither sees the threat coming.
Fenella Kingsley, a genius with supermodel looks, rolls into their elite Seattle prep school and dethrones Zoey. Erica insists no teenager is that perfect and suspects Fenella’s mother—billionaire Lannie Kingsley, and all-powerful AI tech mogul—has artificially boosted her intelligence. Erica lands a job at Prometheus to investigate while Zoey befriends Fenella, falling into Lannie’s orbit and the AI‑dominated future she promises. Mother-daughter tensions explode, and Erica must confront her own parenting failures while fighting for Zoey and the very definition of what it means to be human.
“AI Baby has compelling, complex characters and a strong story that could be less fictional than many think…I couldn’t wait to see how it turned out…Brava!”
— Karen Smiley, Founder, She Writes AI
“Smart, humorous and a somewhat terrifying look at life, where we are now and what might soon be our reality. I loved every minute of it.”
— Stacey R. Campbell, Author of the Highly Rated Lakeview Series
Celeste Garcia’s Substack, Getting Real About AI, examines how emerging technologies are transforming daily life. She writes Herstory for the Substack SheWritesAI, and a contributor to the nonfiction collection of essays from Yinzer Press, AI EVERYWHERE. She lives in Seattle with her husband and has two college-age kids. AI Baby is her first novel.
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