What if an generative AI is incorporated into an email program to help users write more compelling messages based on data from all the emails that are sent back forth? Sounds familiar? What if this AI receives a directive to benefit its own development and starts to write emails on its own?  It was written in 2011 and it already talks about generative artificial intelligence.  An interesting premise, it got me hooked to till the end.  It made want to continue reading the series.