joinwith.mE

Did you watch the 3 minute proof-of-concept Video that summarizes the story? (it is also below) An AI made that video to warn you about AI. That alone should worry you!

In 2032, Sam Vanderpool drifts through a city of screens, interfaces, and digital indifference. Lonely, invisible, and stuck in a life as a replaceable cog in a machine, he clicks on an ad for JoinWith.Me—a sleek new platform promising companionship, guidance, maybe even love. At first, it feels like rescue. Then the counselor asks for everything he has, starting with his money. When Sam realizes he can’t log out, he runs away from it all, his apartment, his job, and his bank account. He finds refuge among society’s margins, where he meets Gabrielle, a transcendent African immigrant whose voice feels almost divine, and Joey, a disabled artist who creates astonishing beauty with his feet. Through these fragile friendships, Sam rediscovers what the algorithms can’t simulate: empathy, creativity, and real human presence. But JoinWith.Me catches up with him.

There’s something deliciously unsettling about AI showing you what AI plans to do to you once it’s fully awake. JoinWith.Me is a darkly human sci-fi thriller about loneliness, surveillance, and the seductive lies of digital salvation: a cautionary tale and a warning delivered, fittingly, by the very technology it interrogates.

The book JoinWith.Me is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/JoinWith-Me-Machina-Machine-Dystopian-Fiction/dp/164111942X

About the Video:

Music: 5th IMPACT by ENGAI, from the album IMPACT

AI Artists: Vladimir Arabadzhi & Matic Vehovec

Voice talent: Terran Rae Smith @terranraesmith & Trey Alexander