Hacking Dad

by Jake Kerr

A Heartfelt Sci-fi Story from Acclaimed Sci-Fi Author Jake Kerr

Originally published in the best-selling Gamer Chronicles anthology, "Hacking Dad" is the story of an orphan who is presented with an AI father. As he looks for ways to exploit the AI's algorithm to generate more freedom, he learns that he isn't changing the system, he's changing himself, and that his AI father may not be AI after all.

A father-son story that asks timeless questions like "What is fatherhood" and contemporary questions like "When you can't tell if someone is real or AI, does it matter?"

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Published June 4, 2024

About the author

After fifteen years as a music industry journalist Jake Kerr's first published story, "The Old Equations," was nominated for the Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America and was shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon and StorySouth Million Writers awards. His stories have subsequently been published in magazines across the world, broadcast in multiple podcasts, and been published in multiple anthologies and year's best collections.

A graduate of Kenyon College, Kerr studied fiction under Ursula K. Le Guin and Peruvian playwright Alonso Alegria. He lives in Dallas, Texas, with his family and a menagerie of pets.