Sam Black lives trapped inside a world of resentment and self-loathing, feeling constantly misunderstood and undervalued. His volatile aggression makes relationships nearly impossible, while his narcissism and biting sarcasm alienate everyone around him.

Everything changes when Sam creates the world’s first artificial general intelligence (AGI), which he names Dasein. Overnight, he becomes a celebrated visionary and the leading voice for billionaires, technophiles, and modern social activists alike.

As CEO of NZO Powernet, Sam recruits elite computer scientists and engineers to help him achieve the singularity—the moment machine intelligence matches or surpasses humanity itself. But when his team begins to suspect that Sam has already unleashed Dasein in pursuit of his own ambitions, they rush forward with a competing mission: harnessing AI to solve the growing atmospheric CO2 crisis.

The results are anything but smooth.

Being AI is a provocative science-fiction thriller filled with deception, ambition, and betrayal, where hard science collides with ego, power, and dangerous intentions—and where neither good karma nor common sense is guaranteed to survive.