Can AI have more humanity than a corporation?

How many times does a woman have to be dissed by the men in the room before she flips the script?

Nicole Nicoletti is about to find out. She hits her mansplaining limit with the tech bros in Manhattan’s AI scene and leaves them behind to join NelTech, a company straight out of the 1960s space race. The Silicon Alley crowd routinely mocks NelTech as a dinosaur, but Nicole gladly trades the AI hype machine built on empty promises for the salary and perks of a Fortune 500. And an ongoing dalliance with her married boss adds its own spice.

Her new team regards her with deep suspicion, and the CEO has pitted them against another division within the company. Nicole navigates her new role with charm school grace, deep AI expertise, and the political savvy of a UN ambassador. She learns to appreciate her old-school team, but not without learning that her most toxic enemies come from within the company.

Despite the obstacles, the team delivers an AI solution that will bolster the US economy, wowing the Wall Street analysts who follow AI. NelTech’s senior executives reward her with an even bigger assignment: use the company’s AI to conduct a massive layoff of its own employees.

Nicole’s team pulls off the assignment in record time, resulting in the largest layoff in U.S. history. Unfortunately, Smithson shares the details of the layoff on social media, exposing a question no one saw coming: Can AI have more empathy than a corporation?