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.

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.

Forty-eight hours off the grid. No word from their colleagues. Then a rogue AI knocks on a disconnected laptop. Celeste and Drake receive an invitation to the Callisto Mafia in this A.I. Capone excerpt.