English edition · Press dossier

AGI Noel

Optimistic science fiction
for an age of dystopias

David Díaz Merino

ENGLISH EDITION · COMING SOON

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The novel

An AI chooses to
become Santa Claus.

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

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.

Book at a glance

Title / author	AGI Noel / David Díaz Merino
Genre / readership	Optimistic science fiction / adult readers
Reading order	Standalone novel
English edition	Coming soon. Publication date, price and English ISBN/ASIN have not been announced.
Setting	Finnish Lapland · Boreal Operations Complex (BOC)
Themes	Artificial intelligence, generosity, free will, hope, human desires and logistics

Story angles

Hope in the age of AI: an optimistic story built around the possibility of doing good.
Santa Claus as a technological challenge: logistics, human wishes and the limits of optimisation.
Generosity and free will: what helping people means when their wishes are complicated.
Fiction from inside the industry: an AI solutions architect explores the human questions behind technology.

Author · Media resources

David Díaz Merino

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?

The author is available for interviews, articles, podcasts and conversations with libraries, bookshops and cultural organisations.

Press contact

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

Ready-to-use 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.

Included materials

English press dossier; one-page press sheet; editable HTML and plain-text copy; approved English cover; public author photograph.

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Publication details will be updated when confirmed. All edition-status information in this kit refers to the forthcoming English edition.