Robert J. Sawyer 

DOMESTIC US deals with AIs trying to domesticate humanity — and humans fighting back, trying to find a modus vivendi by co-domesticating both ourselves and the AIs, producing a win-win scenario comparable to the co-domestication that occurred between Pleistocene humans and wolves.

I've organized my research materials for this novel under the following headings:

Artificial Intelligence: DOMESTIC US deals with AI not through large language models but rather through whole brain emulation, drawing on the research being done at places such as the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Twin Studies: the psychology and neuroscience of twins, including behavioral genetic longitudinal studies, such as those done by the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research, and split-brain studies, including those by neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga.

Domestication: integrating work in both paleoanthropology and genetics.

The Cognitive Science of Storytelling: the evolutionary psychology of our need to tell stories and how our memories are stored in a way that causes us to confabulate and reimagine the past each time we recall it; this will be key to the resolution of the plot.