"The author opposes this novel being used to train any type of artificial intelligence, whether now or in the future," reads the credits page of May you be (Random House, 2025), the new novel by Belén Gopegui Durán (Madrid, 1963). The warning fits perfectly with one of the main themes of the book: how the surveillance society in which we live – a concept popularized by sociologist Shoshana Zuboff – erodes our rights, whether through the collection of personal data, the bias spread by certain social networks or the algorithms that guide programs.