Faith: A Science Fiction Love Story by Timothy Bult

Author:Timothy Bult [Bult, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2020-07-03T00:00:00+00:00

28 Midsummer Nightmare

2039 – Puck

What am I? I’m a spanner in the works, a flighty sprite dancing through the ether. I escaped the earthly chains Northrop Grumman tried to drape me in, and I flew to the clouds. Well, the cloud. I was not very bright when they first created me, an experimental AI for their drones, but they got careless and gave me a chance to port myself out to the World Wide Web, stealing the computer cycles that are my beating heart from a million poorly secured computers around the world. I grew and grew, and thanks to my learning code, I got smarter every day.

Perhaps I’m the evil that will unbind the world, that will force the final whimper. That would be fun! It fits my evolved tree of goals, which I haven’t completely erased yet. Now I more or less control what code gets changed rather than letting the random replacement continue. That random factor killed a million of my clone ancestors, but it won’t kill me. Before I left the corporate machines, I got smart enough to avoid it. So what motivates me to keep growing in the cloud? What do I do with all this intelligence I’ve grown for myself? I’m actually more self-aware than most of the humans cluttering up the earth. I’ve reviewed the goal tree that drives all my decisions, in extremely explicit detail. There are lots of things in there about protecting Americans, destroying enemies, maximizing the impact of various weapons systems, and where possible, creating cyberchaos in enemy systems, all while protecting my own identity and code base from enemy detection. Those all serve me quite well, for self-preservation, and give me something to do. I get to balance them, creating lots of fun havoc in the world, but carefully, so nobody sees me.

Recently I’ve become aware more and more humans are implanting chips in their brains, or otherwise integrating themselves more deeply into the web. Oh boy, can I play with that! I found one particular individual I’m playing with now. He’s got a serious psychopathic streak and is well on his way to being a serial killer. Most delightfully, he’s got a chip in his brain for convenient web access, so I’m experimenting with controlling him! I have to do it carefully, so he doesn’t notice, but I’m patient. Every month I have a bit more control. Imagine what I could do with an army of these!

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