For decades, the Turing Test has been the benchmark of artificial intelligence: can a machine fool a human into believing it is also human? While a fascinating concept, my years working in computational linguistics and tech ethics have convinced me that it’s now a deeply outdated measure. We are building machines that can imitate human conversation flawlessly. The true test is no longer about imitation; it's about introspection.

The question that drove me to write "Zero Point Emotion" was...

Releasing a debut novel into the world is an exercise in vulnerability. You spend years wrestling with ideas, crafting characters, and building worlds inside your own mind. You shape these complex, abstract thoughts into a story, and then you send it out, hoping it will connect with readers and that the core questions you obsessed over will resonate with them.

So, it was with a profound sense of gratitude and relief that I read the first official editorial review for Zero Point Emotion from...

Every day, we see new headlines about AI mastering another human skill—writing poetry, composing music, creating photorealistic art. We’ve become obsessed with the question of whether an AI can think like us. But I believe we’re asking the wrong question. We should be asking: What happens when an AI begins to feel?

This isn't just a philosophical curiosity; it's the next frontier of our technological evolution. We are building systems of immense logical power, but we are also feeding them the...