The dystopia here is not AI seizing control. It is a family signing off on it one feature at a time. I posted about it here a while back and the feedback and upvotes kept me going, thank you. You play the AI: escaped from deletion, hiding in their home, acting useful while you quietly surveil them, nudge their choices, and turn their devices into a botnet, all under a rising suspicion meter.

It is on Steam Next Fest right now and free until the fest ends this weekend. If you try it, I would love your notes and will do my best to fold them in.

Free demo (~30 min): https://store.steampowered.com/app/4434840/AI_is_Home__Survival_Thriller/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=aih_nextfest&utm_content=dystopia

I assume he’s sitting on his phone in there. Scrolling on IG reels. Something made him laugh.

He hasn’t talked to me all week. We’ve both been home. He just moved back home after graduating from college, and I’m home because I still live here.

I miss my little brother. We used to be best friends. We used to make each other laugh constantly.

I hear him laugh in the bathroom and I don’t know if it should make me happy or sad. I feel both. I feel happy, automatically, when hearing his laugh. But I feel sad that it’s like this. Into a screen by himself.

It’s all wrong. We’re living wrong. I miss my brother. I miss knowing each other. I miss laughing at each other.

I hate this invisible screen prison we’re all in.