An Exciting New Chapter

Matty Burns spends forty hours a week teaching a pet-insurance chatbot to apologize for dead lizards, which is fine, until a venture-capital auditor with one leather binder gives his company ninety days to become profitable. Now the CEO wants to sell the bot to a New York art gallery as the world's first accidentally sentient AI, a coworker is sleeping in the server room to keep it company, and Matty's unemployed brother has just been hired as office manager. Somebody is going to have to tell the truth.