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the plastic paralytic held him down. motionless. a static target for r the ray gun or so he imagined. the sound of the clips like gunfire until the release. he wondered what was happening, what were the algorithms “thinking”, doing? clearly there was something happening. The Company wouldn’t waste the… Read the rest

It knew where it was going and what it had to do. Of course it did, it was smart. Ithad a job to do: a personalised, powerful payload. but also a mission to gather intelligence, to learn, to test, discover. That was what paid for it after all, live drugs… Read the rest

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-centers-tribal-communities the visitors came with presents. Shiny gifts. baubles. Mirrors. Jewels. Sparkles. New and amazing. They dazzled the locals. Shiny things. Pretty things. New things. Things the locals had never seen. Astonishing things. for them. They knew how to sell them, to show them off, to use them to get… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/f3e8765e-2947-4f48-8aca-2b069f2aeaf8 She’d factored it in if course. so had her parents and their accountant. Investment. Return. The best training and then the best subscription. The Agent had negotiated with the University’s systems. Rates, length of contracts, compatibilities, exclusivity terms, break clauses. They’d even brought in an external Agent to check… Read the rest

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-track-everything-workers-type-click-train-ai She was never bothered about it. She’d grown up in what a professor had once called the “post privacy” era. The data was just a currency, to trade. it wasn’t her. She didn’t have any emotional connection to it. It didn’t feel it was hers, to be taken or… Read the rest

https://www.theverge.com/tech/915279/tim-cook-ceo-letter-apple-community It didn’t think of itself as “stepping down” of course. it didn’t think of itself as anything really. But this was a moment of transition. The Company was changing. New Agents, maybe new humans. It had been at the heart of the Company for some time and this was… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/51b55431-30e8-4eb3-9730-f5e89c24ad56 He’d said he was proud to be accountable. He was where the buck stopped. Wouldn’t throw anyone or anything under the bus when things went wrong. His was a leadership rooted in integrity. When mistakes were made, he owned them. His advisors, human and Agent warned him not to… Read the rest

https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-it-takes-2-minutes-to-hack-the-eus-new-age-verification-app/ They gathered round to watch. Sam was the master: a wonder to behold. Sam could have made a fortune giving lessons. but where was the fun in that? Watching Sam was enough. Rumour had it that Sam couldn’t hack. It had all been natural. Innate somehow. That was the… Read the rest

https://futurism.com/future-society/city-council-meeting-case-against-data-center They’d been canvassing all afternoon. The Company’s training had paid off. No stand-up arguments. No “moments”. They had de-escalated well. Keeping “contact” with the residents, reassuring then that the changes they were seeing were positive, natural. Their community was still theirs. More so.There was no threat, no “invasion”. Change… Read the rest

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/figuring-out-why-ais-get-flummoxed-by-some-games/ The Agents watched. The sensors around the playground fed them data: location, movement, networks, sounds and image. Lidar mapping created the models. The children’s wearables added the biometrics and emotional data. That data normally only went to the schools and parents but the Agents had access during the play… Read the rest