Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin FeinsteinMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Full Disclosure: I received an Advanced Reader's Copy of Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein from Tachyon Publications via NetGalley. This book will be published around April 7, 2026.
I was not prepared for how engrossed in Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein I got from the moment I picked it up. I thought I would just read a chapter or two before bed and found myself staying up until the wee hours of the morning because I couldn't quite put it down. I did eventually because my eyes refused to stay open but picked it right back up as soon as I could and finished it. I needed to know how this was going to end. I should have guessed I was going to love this from the moment I saw it was written in an epistolary form. I tend to really get into books that are not traditionally formatted. In this case, you are mostly reading transcripts of videos and exchanges recorded by the corporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is monitoring everyone at this cutting-edge AI company. In fact, the employees agree to have everything monitored in order to feed their data to the AI to make it better at what it does. And as we are seeing in the real world, AI is getting better and better at what it does. The problem is people are not inherently good and tech bros are definitely not interested in using AI to benefit humankind over turning a profit. Even the AI recognizes this! And while this book is set in the nearish future, many of the topics are already here. Personalized advertising is already happening to an extent. I don't want to give anything else away because I want you to read the book. If you are interested in AI at all, even the slightest, I think you will want to read this book. I hesitate to say enjoy because oof, that's probably not the right word. It is a bit heavier than that and yet, also offers just a glimmer of light.
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