Life She Outsourced

Niamh O'Donnell has spent twenty years making decisions about lives she will never see. In Dublin's public service, she knows the difference between following a rule and understanding why the rule exists. Then the government begins teaching that difference to a machine.Delegate is meant to assist civil servants, not replace their judgment. But when Niamh returns from family leave, the system has learned more from her than she ever agreed to give—and its answers are becoming impossible to ignore.As questions of ownership, human oversight and accountability reach the courts, Niamh must confront an unsettling possibility: the most consequential thing she has outsourced may be the part of her work that made it human.Set in near-future Ireland, The Life She Outsourced is a character-driven novel about artificial intelligence, the machinery of government, the weight of a decision and the people who must live with its consequences.