Objectively, morality aside, as I can't imagine a machine can handle morality easily, was it effective? Did it actually help people and the planet?
[Maybe he should consider some self-help books on gaining a better science education before jumping right into the fine mechanics of things. As it is this might take a long time, especially given the realities the likes of Tendi are from are FAR more advanced than anything he understands.
But he's got something to work with. Alien xenoplagues!
It's a work of science fiction. He hasn't noticed yet.]
I feel like something like that might decide eradicating mankind is the quickest way to ensuring planetary survival.
[He can imagine something like that running through Shinra's mainframes. What would it take to remove an AI that didn't want to be removed? The question about fiction is puzzling, give him a minute to piece together why she's asking.]
How hard is something like that to ferret out of a modern infrastructure without tearing yourselves back into pre-industrial civilization?
[The book is weighed, but only in a distracted sort of way, the possibilities of such an artificial intelligence and what it could do has a way of grabbing the imagination.
After a moment, he shakes his head.]
No, ideally just science. I don't know a damn thing about any of this, fiction would just muddy the ..
[Hnm, that's not a dewey decimal sticker on the side.]
[Indeed it does not. Sorry, Angeal; apparently, the fact that the library contains multitudes has its downsides. There's a hell of a lot of stuff here to sift through.]
We got lucky. For one thing, we got in on the fight early on; it wasn't anywhere near as entrenched as the AI system last month.
[the SOPHIA system from the breach, she means.]
And for another thing - we had a different AI on our side. One that was just as smart and just as powerful, but that respected human autonomy above everything else.
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[Maybe he should consider some self-help books on gaining a better science education before jumping right into the fine mechanics of things. As it is this might take a long time, especially given the realities the likes of Tendi are from are FAR more advanced than anything he understands.
But he's got something to work with. Alien xenoplagues!
It's a work of science fiction. He hasn't noticed yet.]
I feel like something like that might decide eradicating mankind is the quickest way to ensuring planetary survival.
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We never let it get far enough to find out whether it would do more harm or more good - we took it out before it amassed that much power.
[She jerks her chin at the book in his hands.]
You looking at fiction too?
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How hard is something like that to ferret out of a modern infrastructure without tearing yourselves back into pre-industrial civilization?
[The book is weighed, but only in a distracted sort of way, the possibilities of such an artificial intelligence and what it could do has a way of grabbing the imagination.
After a moment, he shakes his head.]
No, ideally just science. I don't know a damn thing about any of this, fiction would just muddy the ..
[Hnm, that's not a dewey decimal sticker on the side.]
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We got lucky. For one thing, we got in on the fight early on; it wasn't anywhere near as entrenched as the AI system last month.
[the SOPHIA system from the breach, she means.]
And for another thing - we had a different AI on our side. One that was just as smart and just as powerful, but that respected human autonomy above everything else.