The AI Incident

The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado' s unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school.

Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’ s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he' s a foster kid who' s been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous… which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get adopted by a forever family before it' s too late. But then on Visiting Professionals' Day, his school invites Dr. Alphonse Hatch, president of Hatch-ED— one of the fastest-growing artificial intelligence companies in the state— to give a presentation. Dr. Hatch brings his AI-powered robot, and events get set in motion that create. . . THE INCIDENT.

An irresistible MG novel about the role of AI in schools and in our lives… and what it means to be human.