Michaelmas

In the distant year 2000, news personality Laurent Michaelmas has an AI assistant and they mostly rule the world, keeping the Soviet Union in peace with the US. Until discontinuities occur...

The plot mostly proceeds from exposition between the main character and the computer. I visually thought of Domino with a female voice until partway through the book (and only once) Domino is referred to as he. I like my version better, and wonder if the author intentionally avoided gender. Written in the late 1970s, this would be another forward looking feature.

Michaelmas is a character he used in the short story A Scraping at the Bones (written 1975, somewhat about deep fakes) and according to isfdb, is somehow related to a 1978 story also. Since both stories are in Budrys' collection Blood & Burning, I naturally added it to my "to read" pile.

I like this book better than his Hugo award nominated Rogue Moon, which also had story through dialog. In reviewing that I mentioned I found the tech interesting, and it is so here also.