Machines Like Me (2019)

Two lovers help shape the personality of an artificial man, and discover that designing someone does not settle what they owe him. McEwan puts the ethical argument inside a recognisable domestic triangle, where motives are much less orderly than the machine's reasoning. The leap is an alternative 1982 with advanced artificial intelligence and a changed political history. Choose it for awkward character judgements and moral disagreement, allowing room for the novel's historical digressions.