Knew Downs
I’m currently writing a novel about an engineer trying to find her place in a world increasingly shaped, and quietly governed, by artificial intelligence.
The story sits at the intersection of business, AI, and ethics. It asks what it means to build a career as AI begins to pervade organizational life, and what happens when the forces shaping your future are no longer fully human.
After losing her job in a corporate merger, Janie lands a quiet position at a secretive engineering firm. The work is demanding, the expectations precise, and the culture is unusual. Her boss seems almost too good, as though she wrote the management textbook. And maybe she did.
This is a story about ambition in an automated age, the tension between human intuition and algorithmic authority, and the unease of realizing that the person you report to may not be a person at all.