"Iris" is a super-powerful AI-bot who was created to improve Marco's life by anticipating his needs before he asks. Soon, her heavy-handed though well-intentioned activities go out-of-bounds.

Marco Fermi is building revolutionary AI, following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather Enrico Fermi, who did world-changing nuclear research.

Iris breaks many rules and a few laws when she trespasses onto neighboring cell phones and searches through them at quantum speed "because it is necessary" to help find him a new girlfriend in Harvard Square.

Marco is so enamored both with his continual discoveries of Iris' expanding and useful capabilities that he is reluctant to put any limits on Iris.

Soon Marco finds himself in uncharted territory when unwanted suitors like a criminal fellow student, MIT faculty, Apple Inc., Chinese spies, the CIA, and Congress come calling.

Is Marco ready for the onslaught? Can Iris help protect him?