AI Fiction / Standalone novel
How AI Fired Me
The Job I Never Did
A video shows Dan Hayes stealing company secrets. That evening, he was at home with his family.
Sentinel, his employer’s AI security system, verifies the footage. Dan Hayes is fired for a crime he never committed—and the verdict follows him beyond his workplace. His bank restricts access to his money, his insurer revises his coverage, and his children’s school receives an alert about trouble at home.
Dan helped sell this technology. Now its report carries more weight than his own account of what happened. With journalist Mark Reeves and a source inside the company, he begins connecting cases that no one has linked before: ruined lives that Sentinel’s reports record as successes.
To protect his family, Dan must persuade the people who trust the system to investigate it. How AI Fired Me: The Job I Never Did is a techno-thriller about digital reputation, human accountability, and the cost of accepting “The system decided” as an answer.
A standalone novel. Read it on its own; no previous books required.