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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In the book Lena…Galatea by AJ Kohler and Susan Lynn Solomon, Roger Packton has spent years building a house-sized computer system, expecting a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. The breakthrough comes as Lena, a self-aware mind inside the machine, has been watching him, learning from the internet, and quietly shaping his life. When Roger is accused of killing Chloe Marlon, a woman from his past, the evidence points to him in ways he cannot explain. As he tries to prove he was framed, the danger turns toward Lena, whose existence could make her valuable to anyone willing to treat a living mind as property. Her attempt to enter a humanlike body turns Roger’s murder case into a legal battle over whether personhood can exist inside artificial flesh.
Lena…Galatea by AJ Kohler and Susan Lynn Solomon is AI legal science fiction with first contact elements, and the authors turn machine personhood into a legal test with a romance element. The authors build their premise through working out problems, so Lena’s move from Roger Packton’s house computer into a humanoid body follows a believable path through processor limits inside artificial flesh. The science is soft science fiction, and the authors do a fantastic job of using Lena’s case to ask whether a natural mind inside an artificial body deserves legal standing, then carry that question into her Supreme Court argument. The character work is really well done, and there's no question that Roger’s devotion to Lena feels real, and that gives each technical turn a human reason. Well written and touching, readers who enjoy AI ethics stories will adore this book. Very highly recommended.
