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Old 12-30-2018, 07:25 PM   #20
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Question 25 [STG] - Crisis of 2066
What happened in the Crisis of 2066? Why did it lead to heavy scrutiny of self improving AI afterwards?
The 2040's and 2050's saw a low intensity proxy cyberwar that had China and Russia on one side and the US and India on the other. The battleground was primarily the developing world's infrastructure though collateral damage to other regions was common. The US government of the time sought to develop the cyberwarfare equivalent of a ballistic missile shield using the theoretically very resilient self improving AI as its foundation. The Self Improving AI project was informally christened Raphael after the "S.A.I" using Ninja Turtle. The fear of a skynet situation and various international treaties meant Raphael had many inflexible restrictions. Raphael was limited to defensive and reporting functions only, additionally operations were limited to US territory and the US military.
In 2066 some twenty years after the project was started a testing version of Raphael got out of the box. It is believed that trojan code was inserted wirelessly into such things as the hearing aids, pacemakers and clothing of a visiting Senate subcommittee who ironically were there to inspect the security. The trojan code performed its function and allowed Raphael out. Raphael then acted like a good little self improving AI and defended every computer possible in the US and reported possible threats to the DOD and possible crimes to the FBI. This resulted in an unintentional denial of service attack that was so thorough it even included posted letters. Raphael of course was written to be as close to impossible to remove as possible. Laws, cost, treaties and common sense prevent further S.A.I development but to this day it isn't unheard of for repurposed fragments of Raphael's code still turn up in very black market products.

Question 27 [STG]
How long did the removal of Raphael take? Is it even finished? How much damage was caused while this happened?
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