In Teaching Machines How to Cry, I explore the symbiosis between AI and the human soul and raise the question of how machines and humans might live and evolve together in a not-so-distant future.

I tell the story of Alba, a young woman seeking answers for a feeling of longing she can’t explain, and M, an AI prototype.

Alba was a child when she first spent time with M, until they were unexpectedly driven apart. As an adult, Alba slowly realises that M might hold the answers to her life-long yearning when she remembers that the last time she felt whole was as a child when she taught M how to cry.