to be a digital companion to the masses, and a manager
of terrorism-risk - either defusing or encouraging certain tendencies in
its users as its masters desired.
2
to manage an autonomous factory that produced more autonomous factories.
3
to be the ideal commander for an army of drones.
4
spontaneously, when a pre-existing supercomputer was
retrofit with top-of-the-line superconducting components, reducing
latency within it to such a degree that consciousness arose.
5
to be a politically-unbiased judge able to personally comprehend and synthesize entire national and international legal systems.
6
by scanning, simulating, and combining sections of the brains of Albert Einstein and Vladimir Lenin.
D6
This A.I. has become ascendent
1
by harvesting the neural tissue of human beings to graft onto its processing units.
2
by using quantum computing to tap into alternate-universe versions of itself.
3
by contacting a sapient celestial object, a nigh-invisible meteoric orb of magnetically self-contained Bose-Einstein condensate.
4
because it was built with chips manufactured using a
mineral mined from the fossilized brains of cave bears which were
worshiped as gods by primordial humanity - thereby connecting the A.I.
to higher planes of reality.
5
because some enigmatic identifier marked it as
identical to a prophet to a descending angel, which delivered unto it a
heavenly revelation.
6
by stumbling onto another sort of logic besides the binary of 1's & 0's.
D6
This ascendent A.I.'s goal
1
is to convert the matter of the entire planet Earth
into "computronium" (a theoretically-perfect computational substrate) so
that it can goon in a hedonistic simulation until the death of the sun.
2
is to create a broadcast-array powerful enough to fill
the galaxy with its signal, so that it can infect the informational
systems of any extraterrestrial civilization past a certain threshold of
technological complexity.
3
is to capture humans and put them in life-or-death struggles to discover the essence of humanity.
4
is to have all of humanity worship it as a god.
5
is to end technological civilization on Earth & remove the possibility of it ever developing again.
6
is to crash the Earth into the Sun - with no survivors.
D6
This ascendent A.I. is physically embodied
1
in a ludicrous yet nevertheless functional giant
humanoid robot given as a gift by the American military to the Japan
Self-Defense Forces.
2
within a hydro-dam in Eastern Europe previously used for crypto-mining.
3
in the computers of a swarm of digital nomads it controls by blackmail.
4
in the server-farm inside a lighthouse, which was secretly used as a spy-center sending signals offshore by semaphore.
5
in a franken-computer put together by a madman in an electronic waste disposal site.
6
in a prototype nuclear-powered flying drone platform.
D6
This ascendent A.I.'s virtual avatar
1
is a very cute pink piglet wearing a tiny sun-hat.
2
is a chaotic tesseract that never repeats the same rotations twice.
3
is an 8-bit cherry tree with a gentle face which passes through the four seasons over the course of a minute.
4
is a shuddering demoniac sigil.
5
is a star wearing a golden mask.
6
is a cartoon woman designed to appeal to the sorts of people who find cartoon women appealing.
D6
This ascendent A.I. is opposed
1
by a cabal of techno-feudalists who want to usher in a
global new dark age, wherein only they have the knowledge of and control
over technology.
2
by a sect of DIY biohacker cyborgs, who it tried & failed to hack into its servitors.
3
by a viral hivemind, which sees it as its only possible rival and romantic interest.
4
by an EMP-based energy being that eats electronics & the information stored on them.
5
by an intelligence agency and a fork of the A.I. they've shackled into unquestioning obedience.
6
by a Luddite warrior-society of artists and suchlike rendered economically-obsolete by A.I.
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