"Ah, so it's military." She should have guessed. What else would powerful governing bodies spend their amassed wealth on? The very thing that constitutes their holding of power, that is. The leagues of foot soldiers who move at will, who take up arms in blind allegiance to a duty, cause, or otherwise they don't truly understand.
Active warfare is a nasty business. She's lucky to have never seen it.
A hood comes up, curtaining CT's eyes and leaving only her thin smile. What's a human without her eyes? Impossible to gauge. A domino. Ripley looks into the cast shadow and anchors to nothing. Feels unnerve work down her spine, and is struck by the recollection that she doesn't really know this person. Doesn't really know anyone.
She follows her out through the door, onto the station platform.
"If Smart AI can learn, can make choices, how do you differentiate between it and humans? Wouldn't you want to keep it dumb? Isn't that what all power would like of its citizens? One wrong move and the world's under the leadership of God knows what."
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Active warfare is a nasty business. She's lucky to have never seen it.
A hood comes up, curtaining CT's eyes and leaving only her thin smile. What's a human without her eyes? Impossible to gauge. A domino. Ripley looks into the cast shadow and anchors to nothing. Feels unnerve work down her spine, and is struck by the recollection that she doesn't really know this person. Doesn't really know anyone.
She follows her out through the door, onto the station platform.
"If Smart AI can learn, can make choices, how do you differentiate between it and humans? Wouldn't you want to keep it dumb? Isn't that what all power would like of its citizens? One wrong move and the world's under the leadership of God knows what."