My mother was one of the most famous AI researchers in America.
Not long after I was born, she built an AI companion device for me. Every year, she replaced its body and upgraded its programming. By the time I was ten, it had become a robot that looked no different from a real girl. My mother called her my “little sister,” Ava.
Mom said Ava was linked to my biometric wristband and equipped with the most accurate lie-detection system possible.
If I lied, Ava would always know.
From then on, Ava decided my punishment.
The moment she sounded an alert—even if I was telling the truth—Mom would hit me and lock me in the windowless storage room.
I tried to explain. I even tried to fight back.
But every time, Mom’s face would harden. “Ava was built by my own hands,” she’d say. “Her system can’t be wrong. If someone is wrong, it has to be you.”
On the first weekend of summer vacation, in a rare move, Mom took Ava and me to an adventure park outside Austin.
I stood on a free-fall platform over sixty-five feet high, clutching my chest as a knot of fear tightened inside me. I shook my head, again and again.
A blue light flashed in Ava’s eyes. She immediately displayed a report for Mom.
“Morgan’s elevated heart rate is caused by lying. Full-body scan shows no health issues.”
Mom’s face darkened. She grabbed my ear and dragged me toward the edge of the platform.
“Lying again. You’re jumping today.”
The moment the safety line dropped me, a pain ripped through my chest as if my heart were splitting apart. My mouth fell open, but I couldn’t pull in any air.
My vision started to go black. Mom stood above me, still scolding me, her voice loud as she accused me of using lies to manipulate people.
A bloody tear slid from the corner of my eye.
*Mom, this time I really wasn’t lying.*
I died.
From now on, I would never say another word you could call a lie.
My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 40 He had carried his responsibility, and at last, he had not turned farewell into another attempt to extract forgiveness. Claire was still alive. She never contacted me again. All she could do was keep living with a result that would never change. Ava’s
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My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 39 A few years later, my daughter started middle school. Her school had health apps and learning systems, but no device could decide if she was lying. One day after PE, she went to the office saying her chest felt uncomfortable. The school nurse
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My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 38 “Back then, I thought the hands were so big because she believed we could protect her,” he said. “Later I realized it was probably just because, in a child’s eyes, parents really are that big.” My mother stepped up beside me. “When children
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My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 37 The following spring, I went back to the coast with my parents. It was their first time visiting the memorial garden. Dad carried a toolbox and tightened a loose handrail on the bench. Mom brought a bouquet of daisies and a few grilled
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My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 36 They looked orderly. Stable. Easier to trust than a crying child. But not one of them had ever belonged to Morgan. The hearing lasted six hours. In the end, what passed was not a total ban. The committee ruled that no school or
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My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 35 The public hearing at the state legislature was held two months later. The device company sent a new group of representatives. They no longer claimed the system could never make mistakes. Instead, they had revised the slogan to *for reference only*. But in
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My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 34 He closed his eyes. After a moment, he put the key back in his wallet. “I’ll take it there.” “Don’t wait for me at the memorial.” “Okay.” He didn’t call me Mo again. When we left the school, it had started to rain.
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My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 33 My husband didn’t answer for me. He stood by the door, quietly waiting. I walked over to Westley. “I remember the platform. I remember the trunk. I remember you standing at the door.” His cane slipped from his hand and clattered to the
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My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 32 He flipped the report to the page showing the simulated data. “A machine that never had a single real reading affected every person’s actions.” One school board member turned to the device company. “If a student reports pain and the system marks it
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My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 31 “I am Morgan’s father.” A murmur rippled through the room. The lawyer immediately said, “Mr. Maddox, we respect your loss. As you yourself wrote, it was the adults who chose not to listen—” “You don’t have the right to explain that sentence for
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