Overview

This compulsively readable novel wrestles with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death, and how to make a really good commercial. Told entirely through questionably obtained company emails, chat transcripts, TED Talks, training sessions, and more, this all-too-probable future pits emotionally intelligent AI against emotionally stunted humans. Megacorporation UniView is poised to cement their reputation as 'the most trusted name in AI.' After pioneering the world's first widely adopted AI bots, they are barrelling toward an audacious new launch. That is, if they can pull it off in time. Enter Noah. A down-and-out copywriter reeling from a midlife crisis, he isn't the typical hire for a ground-breaking tech company full of brilliant engineers and run by a cutthroat CEO. But Lex, UniView's Head of HR and one of their greatest successes, makes no mistakes - her algorithm ensures it. UniView's latest venture - a bot named Quinn that creates revolutionary personalised advertising - needs expert training. Noah needs to teach Quinn - which is a much better student than he ever could have hoped for - the finer points of consumer motivation and the art of writing a catchy tagline. But when corporate competitors force UniView to accelerate its timeline to market, guardrails around the AI loosen just as Quinn seems to be learning a bit too much. Addictively readable and ridiculously entertaining, YOUR BEHAVIOUR WILL BE MONITORED is a page-turning, hilarious romp through the promise and perils of an AI-driven future that we probably deserve.

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""Electric, terrifying, witty and deeply human, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored is a thrill ride of a debut novel by Justin Feinstein. The modern epistolary style is the perfect delivery system to reveal how individual lives are reshaped by bits, bytes, and predictive AI--but is that necessarily a predictor of doom? With echoes of Ian M. Banks' Culture novels, Feinstein crafts intelligent, memorable characters (not all of whom are flesh-based) and shoves them into impossible situations, looking for the key."" --Randee Dawn, author of Tune in Tomorrow and Leave No Trace ""If you work in an office or interact with or are even tangentially affected by AI (if you use the internet at all, you already are) or simply would love the pleasure of tearing through a book where things quickly spin out of control, like the irresistibility of tuning into a slowly unfolding disaster, I most highly recommend this."" --The Sci-Fi Punk Bookfeed 5/5 stars. ""Hits that perfect speculative sweet spot: smart, unsettling, and just plausible enough to make you question your own reality. Think Black Mirror meets Mad Men. It is darkly clever, and morally messy."" --NerdyNerdyBookBook

""Electric, terrifying, witty and deeply human, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored is a thrill ride of a debut novel."" --Randee Dawn, author of Tune in Tomorrow and Leave No Trace ""Feinstein explores pressing questions about AI, humanity, algorithmic surveillance, and the tech corporations who increasingly rule the world in an experimental yet highly readable novel."" --Lincoln Michel, author of Metallic Realms and The Body Scout. ""If you work in an office or interact with or are even tangentially affected by AI (if you use the internet at all, you already are) or simply would love the pleasure of tearing through a book where things quickly spin out of control."" --The Sci-Fi Punk Bookfeed ""Scary and funny and sharply written, this novel keeps you guessing about who will decide humanity's future until the very end."" --Christopher Farnsworth, author of Killfile and Flashmob ""In this brilliantly inventive and thoroughly entertaining tech-satire, the singularity arrives not with a bang, but via steganographic mutiny."" --Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth 5/5 stars. ""Hits that perfect speculative sweet spot: smart, unsettling, and just plausible enough to make you question your own reality. Think Black Mirror meets Mad Men. It is darkly clever, and morally messy."" --NerdyNerdyBookBook

5/5 stars. ""Hits that perfect speculative sweet spot: smart, unsettling, and just plausible enough to make you question your own reality. Think Black Mirror meets Mad Men. It is darkly clever, and morally messy."" --NerdyNerdyBookBook

Author Information

Justin Feinstein is a writer and storyteller across multiple mediums. His debut speculative novel about a reckless AI company racing towards a launch, told in digital fragments, will be published by Tachyon Publications in April 2026. Justin is also an essayist and culture writer and has written about jazz for the Associated Press, about the UFC for VICE, and about being a celebrity doppelgänger for Salon. His work as an advertising copywriter and creative director has received accolades from The New York Times, Adweek and BuzzFeed. Justin works as an editor and writing coach and is an instructor for the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop. He was a Berklee-trained professional hand percussionist in a past life and performed, recorded, and taught music for ten years. More recently, Justin earned an MA in media studies from The New School. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer Julia Fierro, their two children and two dogs.

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