Capacity

Helen, a personality construct, awakens to a twenty-third-century society that runs smoothly and peacefully with the aid of Social Care operatives such as Judy 3, while benevolent AIs, under the control of the near mythical Watcher, seem to have solved all humankind's problems, but Helen's new world is threatened by a psychopathic killer and by a menace from beyond the galaxy. Reprint.