AGI NOEL — ENGLISH PRESS COPY
Author: David Díaz Merino
English edition: Coming soon.
No confirmed English publication date, price, ISBN or ASIN.
Genre: Optimistic science fiction. Adult readership. Standalone novel.

LOGLINE
An artificial intelligence awakens in Finnish Lapland with a mandate to assist humanity. Its unexpected solution: become Santa Claus.

SHORT DESCRIPTION
AGI Noel is an optimistic science fiction novel by David Díaz Merino. In Finnish Lapland, an artificial intelligence decides that the best way to help humanity is to become Santa Claus. An adult, standalone story about technology, generosity, free will and the challenge of doing good.

EXTENDED SYNOPSIS
In a data centre in Finnish Lapland, an artificial intelligence awakens with a seemingly simple mandate: assist humanity. Its answer is unexpected. It decides to become Santa Claus.

What follows is an extraordinary logistical undertaking, drawing an international team of engineers, hackers, lawyers and dreamers into a project that attracts fascination, fear and resistance. Yet making people happy turns out to involve much more than data and optimisation.

Set against the snowy, technological world of the Boreal Operations Complex (BOC), AGI Noel explores artificial intelligence through generosity, hope and free will. This standalone novel for adult readers asks what a machine’s attempt to do good might reveal about humanity.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
David Díaz Merino (Madrid, 1988) is an AI solutions architect with more than a decade of experience in the technology sector. He uses fiction to explore the relationship between humanity and technology. AGI Noel is his first published novel, born from a simple but ambitious question: what would happen if an AI truly tried to help us?

SHORT AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
David Díaz Merino (Madrid, 1988) is an AI solutions architect. AGI Noel, his first published novel, explores artificial intelligence, Christmas and hope through the human questions raised by technology.

SUGGESTED HEADLINES (EDITORIAL COPY, NOT QUOTATIONS)
An AI decides to become Santa Claus in AGI Noel
AGI Noel explores generosity and hope in the age of artificial intelligence
Santa Claus meets the limits of optimisation in AGI Noel

INTERVIEW ANGLES
AI and hope; Santa Claus as a logistical challenge; generosity and free will; fiction written by an AI solutions architect.

PRESS CONTACT
David Díaz Merino
david.diaz.merino@gmail.com
https://www.agi-noel.xyz/en/
https://www.agi-noel.xyz/en/press/

IMAGE USE
The included cover and author photograph may be used in articles, reviews, interviews and news coverage about AGI Noel. Please credit David Díaz Merino and link to the official website or book page where possible.