The Deepest Fake , Daniel Kalla (Simon & Schuster, 304 pages)

How does Kalla do it? The B.C. emergency-room doctor has brought us astonishingly prescient plotlines about pandemics, fitness fads and influencers, all of them seemingly snatched from the front-page news. The Deepest Fake is another, about the rise and threat of AI.

Liam Hirsch is the man who has it all: the gorgeous family, the money, the career of his dreams as CEO of an AI company destined to become even more successful. And then it starts to fall apart. First, Liam is diagnosed with a terminal illness. A week later, he’s confronted with proof of his wife’s infidelity. The family implodes. Faced with The End, Liam turns to his beloved work, where he finds himself confronting AI-generated deepfakes that rival reality.

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