Wonderful book, really well crafted. It gripped me from the beginning and I couldn't stop reading. AI meets Romeo and Juliet meets William Gibson. ( )

Artificial Intelligence models can create life-like simulations. Despite that, the thought that we might be living in a simulation never occurs to us. Such an existence could explain our seeming lack of control over events in our lives.

While reading “The AI that Feared Death”, I couldn’t tell that the book’s characters were largely made up of individuals in a simulated environment. The text drifted back in forth between real characters and their simulated counterparts causing me some confusion. And, not realizing there was a difference, I often wondered where the characters’ real interests lay. It wasn’t toward the end of the book that I grasped that some of the characters were AI-generated, with one, in particular, having been created as the perfect sole mate for the main character.

This modern-day tragedy left me sad. There are very few times when the perfect girl meets the perfect guy. When it happens, the world wants the relationship to succeed as it’s a wonder to see.

This well-written book was a love story with intrigue and forces tearing them apart. As in most classical tragedies, they ended their love in suicide. ( )