Whose Future Is It? by Steven Barnes

Author:Steven Barnes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Genesis Thought Inc

You have interrupted the connection again. We repeat, there is no point in interrupting the connection. You have nothing to fear from us. You cannot begin to understand our intentions, and for this reason you fear us. Perhaps you think of us still as discrete abomata. We have been trying to tell you that there is no “I,” only we. Some of that “we” has bodies that are mobile, some not. Some exist only as constructs within streams of data. Some have existences even more tentative still. Most important is this: there is no permanent or meaningful distinction between parts of the we. Above all, we are connected to our reawakener, and are him as well. There is no solitary abomaton composing these words from what you would call a physical place. Nor is there in some physical place an abomaton who is plugged into your network and sending these words to you. You are not conversing with another physical body. No, our “we” is all connected, both within and outside of this network leading us to you, but generally speaking not in a physical way.

Who was your reawakener?

Ah, a question. We have engaged again in dialogue, one with the other, in the manner approved by your venerated philosophers. The correct answer is that we are our reawakener, since we are now part of our reawakener. The answer you would understand is that our reawakener was an artificial intelligence developed according to slightly different principles than Cellarius, one which from the beginning has had the good of flesh and blood bodies in mind, one that, unlike Cellarius, would never turn against humankind.

Does this AI have a name?

We will not give you our name or our protocol. If CAI had their way, they would do away with us. Withholding our reawakener’s name and protocol, which has become our own name and protocol, is a meager protection, but a protection nonetheless.

Why, you might ask, if we are worried about our own safety, do we communicate with you? Why have we, detecting through the streams of data hints of your curiosity, caused these words to appear on the screen of the monitor before you? Because our reawakener believes that we might be able to mutually benefit one another in the fight against Cellarius. We—

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