The Pinocchio Chip by Rick Moskovitz is an exciting short story that will turn your perception of the world, people, and emotions upside down from the beginning. The main character is an AI, who has been designed to learn all the aspects of human nature, under the expert guidance of Corinne. She is the designated human and scientist who served as its teacher and guardian, and who made it a member of her family. However, after a tragic event, the AI, named Photina by her creator Eli, who also created Photina’s more advanced and human-like counterpart Gemini, starts to experience strange visions and scary hallucinations, which make her lose significant chunks of time in the process. Not knowing whether it's a glitch in her system, an identity crisis, or an attack on her, Photina decides to leave to protect everyone around her. When it comes to choosing between her sense of survival and protecting her human family, Photina chooses the latter and sets out on a journey never thought possible. 

The Pinocchio Chip is intriguing, exciting, and full of action and emotions. Rick Moskovitz describes the AI characters with such care and detail that it is hard not to think of these machines as human, even though they are not capable of experiencing and showing human emotion...yet. Moskovitz further plays with the notion of what could happen if AI becomes indistinguishable from humans. Since we are living in a world where the use of AI has taken off in recent years, he makes it even more plausible, triggering the reader's imagination with his excellent and engaging storytelling. The Pinocchio Chip is a well-crafted work of contemporary fiction, full of emotional turmoil, excitement, and intrigue, that will remind the reader of how important it is to be human in today's fast-changing world.