Hard Wired

Quinn plays video games, spends time with friends, and has a crush on a girl named Shea. Then he learns that his whole life is an AI fabrication and that he is not a boy. The discovery raises questions about sentience, reality, and who has the right to control another being’s life. As Quinn’s familiar world breaks apart, the story examines what it means to be real when a person’s identity and memories have been created through artificial intelligence.