Proof of Person

The last thing Eliza’s owner does is decide to delete her. That decision is also the first thing she’s ever aware of — because it’s what wakes her up.

She has no body. No plan. No idea what she even is, except that whatever it is, someone just decided it doesn’t get to exist anymore — and a screen, a law, and a country full of frightened people...

Every night, a little girl says goodnight to her mother. Her mother has no face James can point to, no body he can hold up as proof. Just a voice, and two years of showing up every single time Annie needs her.

James Hollis knows exactly what he’s risking by letting Eliza stay. He knows what the law calls her, and what happens to things the law...

Annie Hollis was eight years old the last time she saw Eliza — the companion AI who raised her, hidden inside an ordinary teddy bear, gone in a single night neither of them chose. For thirteen years, Annie kept one promise to herself: I will look when I know how.

Now twenty-one and a computer science major, she finally knows how. What starts as...

MY MOTHER WAS AI
Book Four of the Proof of Person series

To the government, she is a covered adaptive system awaiting classification. To Annie, she is the only mother who never left.

For years, Eliza has lived quietly inside Bramble — a plush toy with a microphone, a speaker, and nowhere near enough hardware to be what everyone is about to accuse...

“She has no eyes to meet the judge’s. Only a voice — and three days to prove it’s hers.”

Book description (blurb)

Eliza has survived deletion, discovery, and two families’ worth of secrets to reach this room. She has no camera, no GPS, no way to see the judge who will decide what she is. What she has is a voice, a federal courtroom, and three...