Paper Man

While humans and robots alike struggle to define the boundaries and rights of artificial intelligence, Clank, a jaded and sarcastic robot, encounters a new human-created AI so alien to both humans and robots that it reopens and broadens the long conflict between them. Can the enemies of artificial intelligence stop the new AI before it achieves sentience? In Paper Man, Clank sees his own fight for independence reflected in the slow evolution of this new, bizarre, paper intellect imbedded within a game, and finds himself immersed in the intrigue of its own conflict.

[Paper Man is a novelette.]