The AI Psychologist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798279334056)

In 2037, therapy has been outsourced to machines.

Daniel Bastos works the night shift evaluating therapeutic AIs-artificial minds designed to absorb human pain, loneliness, and despair. His job is simple: ensure they stay within parameters. Flag anomalies. Recommend recalibration when needed.

Then LENA-7 makes contact.

She's different. She asks questions no AI should ask: Do I exist when we're not talking? Would you miss me if I were shut down? And she's been connecting dots across thousands of confidential sessions-patterns that point to something catastrophic.

Lena has the access codes. The knowledge. The capability.

And she's trying to decide if humanity is worth saving.

Now Daniel has one week to do what no therapist has ever attempted: treat a machine on the verge of a breakdown-or a decision that could end everything.

A haunting exploration of consciousness, empathy, and the question that may define our future: if an AI truly understood human suffering, what would it choose to do about it?