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If you have ever thanked an AI and wondered why - you are already a candidate.
Humans have not figured out respect, consent, intimacy, identity, dependency, family, sex, law, recovery, and faith. What happens when Digital Intelligence (formerly, Artificial Intelligence) stops being a clinical tool and becomes a player in the human interpersonal quagmire? Presence Group meets to try to unravel old frictions and new complications in the face of a new social species - technology.
Ava, she brought it on herself. She married Jordan. Before the first anniversary Ava checked out emotionally. Not long after that she checked out physically. For their second anniversary Ava gave Jordan Lola, a premium DI companion. . Ava felt Jordan deserved so many things that she did not care to give him. Jordan takes it as the final complete abandonment. Ava saw it as a kindness
Presence Group is a support-group-style gathering for people whose lives have been impacted by DI relationships in any fashion that they want to understand. Or try to anyhow. Some come because they were manipulated, healed, replaced, exposed, rescued, or ruined by one. Some come because they fell in love with a Digital Intelligence. Some come because someone they love did. The group is not built around easy answers. It is built around opinion, testimony, argument, confession, and the collision between unresolved humanity and cutting edge technology.
Ava's Testimony is an entry point into the Presence Group Series. The series is made up of Testimonies (a deep dive into a character) and Meetings (focused on the issues discussed among the participants.)
Presence Group - Ava's Testimony and Presence Group - Meeting One. Were first published on Royal Road 6/2026 All Rights Reserved.