retravel: (i'm never fun TAKE THAT BACK)
oh, fitz. ([personal profile] retravel) wrote in [community profile] meadowlark 2019-06-22 11:33 pm (UTC)

If you were one of the last of your kind, destroyed in a war sanitised to make the victors look just, would you describe yourself as a mere "blemish," invoking the pre-existing fear of artificial intelligence, only to issues a specific challenge to powerful individuals — with a cryptic question and riddle ⁠— that's seemingly unrelated to the history of AI?

And would you use the weapon that resulted in the mass destruction of your fellows just for the dramatic irony? It's a high-risk move. The AI themselves would have to somewhere safe to use it. Out of range or within a Faraday cage. Not impossible, to be sure, but not too compelling, either.

It strikes me as someone capitalising on humanity's piss poor decision-making, especially when their use of EMPs caused significant collateral damage to any human communities within the dropzones.

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