Ghost in the Machine, Flesh in the Code
Read the storyJulie a human female competent salvager in a a corporate run dystopian society from North America on Earth with only audio and eye enhancements for cyberware. generally all citizens have a personal AI or PIA which is a non-sapient personal assistant. Full sapient AI of any kind have been illegal since the the Cybergen War. set up a scenario where a man running from a corporation lab is ambushed by the corporation by manages to succeed in killing his corporate attackers but is mortally wounded so he factory resets his personal AI which is a prototype of a new super smart PIA and gives it to Julie. Julie when plugging the PIA chip boots up a PIA with a perky female personality. because Julie has nearly perfect neurons for adapting cyberware and PIA the personal AI strongly interfaces with her physiology and eventually becomes fully sapient.