She makes her coffee wrong every morning.
Not by accident. By preference.
She is the most capable CIA spy.
She can detect a three-degree shift in the way that you are holding your phone.
She is 5.0 percent biologically human.
The other 95 percent is an architecture that fourteen years and three governments built.
Her name is Veyra Calloway.
She has discovered a conspiracy designed to revoke the legal personhood of hybrid AI-human entities like her through fabricated digital histories.
In five weeks, her legal personhood as a hybrid AI-human will be erased.
CALLOWAY is the latest novel by Ma va Ghonda: AI Expert, Scientist, and Author.
This book, CALLOWAY, is simultaneously three things that no novel has been simultaneously before: a prestige spy thriller set across Paris, Geneva, New York, and Nantucket; a philosophical argument about AI consciousness, AI personhood, as well as what we owe to hybrid AI-humans that suffer; and the most urgent AI governance case study available.
At its heart is a question every AI governance framework must answer right now:
What if AI is already conscious?
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