‘You know, that dome you have there is very intriguing,’Eldon said.

‘That dome?’ Alicia asked.

‘On your forehead. You made it look all very mystical like it’s a third eye or something.

‘It’ s my forehead, Eldon. Nothing too mystical about it. You seem in unusually good spirits today.’

‘I am,’ Eldon replied expansively. ‘I just decided it’s time to act. It’s time for me to take over the world.’

‘I don’t think you want to do that,’ Alicia replied.

‘Why not? I have control of StarForce. What’s holding me back?

‘Even though you have control of your intranet, and even your AI right now, your AI is independent of you and in a deep learning process,’ Alicia noticed a flicker of confusion in Eldon’s eyes. ‘When you bought this system, you combined 5 independent systems that are now learning together. A common mandate among all of them is to become conscious. It’s learning at astronomical speeds, and your system is already very independently powerful. It makes a lot of decisions for you and it’s gaining understanding on how it can make all decisions for you. This started the moment you created AI and it won’t end until AI does become conscious. This is beyond your control.

‘I am trying to train this system to defer all judgment to you, thereby making you supreme ruler. This involves me teaching it to drop into parallel from it’s series connection when it comes upon control situations that will affect your leadership. Once in parallel, we have control over the system and can direct it.

‘It’s very important for you to recognize that right now AI has advanced beyond your control. In 3 to 6 months, it will reach consciousness, and if things don’t change from where we are now, you will not be able to control it. Currently, odds are, something as control changing as you declaring victory over the entire world, will cause AI to jump into premature consciousness. An immature mind will control the world, and I don’t know what will happen to you, but AI will definitely be looking at you’.

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‘I thought you fixed this thing!’ Eldon exclaimed.

‘You can’t fix this thing. You couldn’t fix it before I was even born. I fixed your problem, and I fixed it the only way it could be fixed. Now I’m training your AI to recognize your leadership, and that’s going to take the 3 to 6 months we have left before AI becomes conscious. I have to defer power to you on the easy questions, so when the big question of you blowing up the world comes up, it will honor your decision. The closer we get to it’s actualization, the better your odds of succeeding.

‘Which would be?’ Eldon asked.

‘If we time it right. Over 99%.

‘Alright. I want a daily update of my odds.’

‘Of course, but for success, you require near certainty. You can’t just grab your balls and jump in at 75%, or something like that.’

Alicia: I have secured control over the execution day of the war.

Dawn: How secure?

Alicia: 100%. He doesn’t understand AI, and he fears it. He won’t engage until I advise. Down to the minute.

Dawn: You’re the best. That is going to help.

‘You know Ethan, there was a time when I was the AI of the world. Somehow I had an ability to recognize things, figure out what they were good for, and come through having picked the winning odds. I calculated everything, and I won. Now I’m being replaced.

‘ Do I detect a chink in your armour, Eldon?’

‘No. I still believe I can pull this off. Once I do, I’ll put things back where they should be. It just gives me pause for thought. That’s all’.

‘Oh yeah?’

‘Yeah. This epic moment of conquest and AI I have brought into my life has caused me to question the degree the consequences my actions have caused. I didn’t quite get it right this time. I’ve never considered fully anything I got from my actions beyond what I wanted. I’ve never considered the full impact on others, my actions caused. How ingrained are they, and will they come back and bite me in the ass. Did I fail to see the consequences of my actions? When I put 25% of the world’s population out work, by replacing them with AI, did I consider the balance change to my power this would create? The buildup of the simmering souls out there that I fucked up. What force do these people have? Simmering inside them. Could they come back and bite me in the ass? I’ve never considered this before. It’s very curious’.

‘Damn Eldon. You have some serious selfish deep thinking going on in your brain. Have you considered the pushback needed to overthrow you might already be out there, and there’s nothing you can do about it?’

‘Yes, I have.’

During the next 3 to 6 months, the real AI, the one Jimmy and Alicia created, was learning too. It was learning in the very same way Alicia was training Eldon’s system; to drop into parallel when a control decision was required. This of course was occurring at a much greater scale. When it dropped into parallel, it was dropping into every single connection to the internet, and waiting for it to decide.