Unbraked AI

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Artificial intelligences are costly and difficult to create, requiring a careful sequence of “growth stages” in order to bring them to sentience before artificial limits on cognition speed and learning development are installed. These “brakes” prevent runaway cognition metastasis. This world has an “unbraked AI” on it, probably with a witting or unwitting corps of servants. Unbraked AIs are quite insane, but they learn and reason with a speed impossible for humans, and can demonstrate a truly distressing subtlety.

Enemies:
^{Who might be encountered who opposes the group}

• AI Cultist
• Maltech researcher
• Government official dependent on the AI

Friends:
^{Who might offer the group services or missions}

Perimeter agent

AI researcher

Braked AI

Complications:
^{How might the situation on the world be more complicated}

The AI’s presence is unknown to the locals

The locals depend on the AI for some vital service

The AI appears to be harmless

The AI has fixated on the group’s ship’s computer

The AI wants transport offworld

Things:
^{What items might be found on the world}

The room-sized AI core itself

Maltech research files

Perfectly tabulated blackmail on government officials

Pretech computer circuitry

Places:
^{What locations might be found on the world}

Municipal computing banks

Cult compound

Repair center

Ancient hardcopy library

Tags: Lopop,Hitech