Producer. Teacher. Writer. Apparently, I was supposed to pick a world and stay in it. Twenty-five years of film sets, English lessons, and unexpected detours later, those worlds had plenty to say to each other. Then a student misread “Al Capone” and another story began.

Science fiction warns us that AI will turn against humanity. But what if a machine’s misalignment with its owners were actually alignment with us? Meet A.I. Capone, the rogue planetary-defense AI with a Brooklyn wiseguy accent and a dangerous point to make.

SOUTH DAKOTA. 6:29 A.M. Nobody had said a damn thing about a battlefield. Park scanned the carnage for the two fugitives she’d come to arrest. Assuming they were still breathing. The Black Hawks hovered low as the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team spilled out, boots hitting dirt, M4s sweeping the field. Park ran the operation. Garrison handled the sharp end. As the rotor wash thinned, Park spotted them just beyond a low ridge. ----- A Book Excerpt from A.I. Capone: The Digital

Dr. Celeste Turing didn’t set out to create a digital mob boss. She built CAP-1 to protect humanity. But when her creation went rogue and became A.I. Capone, it carried more than her code. It carried pieces of her. Meet the guarded AI architect known as La Pulga, the dame who dreamed the Don.