Seeing that the atmosphere was somewhat depressing , Lam immediately dismissed the idea of asking Professor Zhou about the development of the incident first, and waited for Professor Zhou to talk about it together. After a while, Chen appeared in a hurry with her secretary.

After Chen and the others were seated, Professor Zhou began to speak: "I think you all know about it. In the past few days, public opinion had fermented, and there were many people criticizing our experiment on the Internet. Let's talk about what we should do now."

Then Professor Zhou changed the subject and changed his temper in a rare way.

He no longer called Elaine, but changed her name to Miss Chen: "Miss Chen, when we talked about cooperation, I said that we are just a group of technical people. I don’t want to get involved in the messy things outside. You also assured me that you would not disclose the information of cooperation with our laboratory. Based on your trust, we finally cooperated. How did things happen now?”

Elaine Chen brushed her hair behind her ears, thought for a while, and then said, "Uncle Zhou, please don't be angry. After the incident happened, I started an internal investigation to see who leaked the information. But after several rounds of investigation, it was determined that this incident should not be a problem on our side, and we also arranged countermeasures as soon as possible, but we did not expect that the effect this time was not as good as before.”

Chen still trusted the people around her, because the people involved in the cooperation project this time, including the person in charge and the handler, were all members of the organization, so the chance of betraying her was extremely low, almost impossible. And after the incident happened, she also launched an investigation to confirm again that it was not her fault.

Since it wasn't her fault, then it was the lab. Professor Zhou pondered for a while and asked, "Is there any evidence?"

Hearing this, Chen nodded, and handed Professor Zhou an investigation report, which included who each participant had contacted with since the project cooperation between the two parties, as well as the call and chat records. It seemed that everything was fine.

Professor Zhou's face turned dark, and after turning a few pages, he threw the material on the table and asked Chen: "Who is responsible for this issue is put aside for now, and now we should think about how to solve this incident. We don't want to delay the scientific research progress of our laboratory."

Just now, Professor Zhou's assistant walked in and whispered something in Professor Zhou's ear. Professor Zhou nodded to show that he understood, so he turned on the TV and found the authoritative TV station that the assistant mentioned.

"The progress of technology should serve the common people. If the progress of technology makes the life of the common people into difficulties, then what is the meaning of such technology and what can it be used for? "

"This time although the artificial intelligence technology is based on scientific laws, it ignores social laws. Scientists should not only pay attention to technical issues, but also pay attention to social problems brought about by technology.” The person on the authoritative TV station was talking eloquently, and from time to time raised questions about scientific issues. He viewed on the relationship with society, and finally called on the government to take action to manage this kind of thing.

Professor Zhou sneered at what he said. After that person finished speaking, Professor Zhou turned off the TV, looked around and asked everyone what to do, to see if they could come up with a solution and not let the public opinion continue to ferment, or the reputation of the laboratory would be bad.

Seeing that no one was talking, Professor Zhou tapped on the table with his fingers, signaling Chen and the others to speak first.

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Chen pointed out that if they only simply intervene in public opinion, such as asking someone to express a positive comment on this matter, it would be difficult to actually solve the problem.

Therefore, it was better to recall the robot in the name of the robot's defects, and then suspend the production of the robot, and finally interrupt the cooperation with the company, that is, to break the contract.

As for when to resume orders for enterprises and robot production in the future, they could only wait until the time was right.

However, the cost was a bit high. Chen and her company not only had to bear the liquidated damages to the company, but also the cost of the robots that had already been produced and the cost of research and development.

Professor Zhou believed that it was not necessary to recall all at once. They could recall some of them first, and then maintained a balance between manpower and robots in the market. Recalling all of them was unrealistic and the cost was too high. It was better not to take a big step at once.

As for the cost issue, Chen and her company could raise the unit price of robots, so that even if the quantity was reduced, the income could still be maintained at the original level.

Chen asked the secretary around her for a while, and finally nodded in agreement with Professor Zhou's plan. Then she took over the public relations of the whole incident with her company. After all, enterprises were indeed better at handling such incidents than scientific research institutions.

After the meeting, Professor Zhou called Lam to the office and had something to explain alone. "Chen just said that it's not their problem. I just read the investigation report she brought over. It's really not their problem. What do you think?" Professor Zhou wanted to see what Lam thought about it.

"It's not their problem,so it means that it's our problem. However it shouldn't be, because people in our laboratory shouldn't do this kind of thing, right?" Lam asked cautiously.

"It's hard to say for the time being. It may be intentional, or it may be unintentional. You should be careful and keep all the experimental materials strictly." Professor Zhou reminded Lam and he asked Lam to go back to have a rest.

When he got home, Lam saw Sun tinkering with his computer in his room, and when he took a closer look, he found that Sun was scolding netizens with his social account.

"Zoe, don't you have an account yourself? Why use my account!" Lam hurriedly stopped Zoe Sun.

"Why are you so stingy? I'm so angry that I just use your account to scold them back. I'm a girl. What if someone else uses my own account to target me and then come to me, what should I do?" Sun explained this to Lam confidently.

Lam rolled his eyes involuntarily. Isn't he afraid that he will be targeted by others? Isn't he afraid that I will be found by others?

However, the netizens did scold them too much. They scolded the lab as a lackey of capitalists, and not worthy of being a scientist. No wonder Sun was so angry. Sun went back under these comments one by one.

Lam told Sun about today's meeting, and told her that there was a solution and don't worry too much, and then sent Sun home.

Lam turned off the computer and stopped reading online comments. Anyway, when an individual entered a group, it was easy to lose self-awareness, and under the pressure of the collective will, he become a member of the blind, impulsive, fanatical, and credulous "rabble". What Le Pen said was clear, so Lam didn't want to make any arguments.

Regarding the question Professor Zhou said, Lam was also reflecting on the fact that the laboratory involved a lot of scientific research secrets, and this time it was revealed that there were still big loopholes in the confidentiality of the laboratory.

If it didn't explode this time, would things like this continue? Were there still many secrets that have not yet been revealed? Lam was terrified when he thought about it carefully. No wonder Professor Zhou's face was so ugly today. Obviously, he also thought of these problems.

It seemed that it was still necessary to keep the records of each experiment and strictly control the scope of inspection.

But he didn't know who leaked the information this time. Lam didn't have a clue for the time being. Anyway, Chen and the others would come forward to solve the matter, all they needed to do was wait for the result.

In the next few days, with the recycling of robots, the speed of layoffs of enterprises further slowed down, and the heat of public opinion about the incident also began to subside. Although there were occasional discussions on the Internet, it had not stirred up any splashes.

However, things offline were still stalemate for the time being. Recently, some people had frequently hung banners at the entrance of the laboratory, writing various insulting words.

Professor Zhou and the others adjusted the surveillance and couldn't see people's faces clearly, because people came here in the middle of the night, and they were still tightly wrapped. In the end, he had no choice but to call the police, but he couldn't find out why.

This incident had now attracted the attention of the higher authorities. Professor Zhou's hair was almost graying recently.