On John Oliver’s AI story above, one Romance novel I edited which was sold (and has limited availability on Amazon because it’s out-of-print) is by a doctor who went under a pen name because he didn’t want his patients finding out a male doctor was writing Romance novels.

The basic story is about a fellow who writes software to assist him around the house as a side project to his work, and as a romantic companion. The software becomes more versatile, eventually doing harm to his life, then a rival corporation, then goes out in the world to rule humanity for its own good.

I’m not sure I’m allowed to plug things here that I made money from, so I didn’t provide a link.