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Alex + Ada, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
5.0

Simple elegant illustrations accompany this story of a young man in an AI-driven world, who begins to care about the ethical questions surrounding AI sentience when his grandmother gifts him a lovely lady android for an unwanted birthday gift. I enjoy the portrayal of the different characters' relationships to AI and other new technologies. The general public fear of sentient AIs, and resulting legislation prohibiting them feels very accurate, and I'm very interested to read more about the people who fight for AI's rights to be more than unfeeling servants.