Taylor Dacopral

## Taylor Dacopral | Profile

PROFILE | Taylor Dacopral: newly appointed EVO COO

*Will Dacopral be the first AI to head a AAA Prime corporation?*

September 30, 2076 at 4:00 a.m.

Monday’s announcement from outgoing EVO CEO Anatoly Kirilenko that Taylor Dacopral, currently VP for Research and Development at Yamatetsu Naval, will be taking the position of COO has many insiders speculating that this could be a sign that he has selected Dacopral to succeed him as CEO when he retires at the end of this year and has many outside the highest levels of EVO asking the question “Who is Taylor Dacopral?”.

‘Taylor Dacopral’ is a name well known in the fields of advanced heuristics and robotics, but until recently, it had very little exposure in the greater business world, something that is bound to change if rumors are true and they are on the path to becoming the first AI CEO of a AAA Prime Megacorp. A product, quite literally, of the earliest days of the EVO brand, as one of the first wave of post-Crash Big Data aggregators, beginning life as the ‘Data Correction and Processing Algorithm’ or DaCoPrAl (still born with pride in their second name ‘Dacopral’). While the precise timing of their developing full self-awareness is unknown, they were recognized as a full EVO citizen at the beginning of the year 2071, taking the first name ‘Taylor’ for purely aesthetic reasons. Initially working in programming, Dacopral came to notice as the lead designer and prototype for EVO-4M’s CE-series city administration intelligences, such as Denver’s MACE (Metropolitan Area Civil Engineer). Their work on managing physical spaces from the digital realm led them to what some would call their driving passion, the interface between the digital and physical worlds, and before this most recent promotion was at the head of the drone design and production units at Yamatetsu Naval, EVO’s largest arms branch.

In this position, Dacopral revolutionized the drone design space, extending anthroform to metaform, incorporating non-metahuman features and even multiple forms into their designs and paving the way for control architectures optimized for AI pilots. Dacopral’s passion for bridging the gap between organic and digital intelligences is well known within EVO and the drone space. They were one of the first to design drones especially for AI use and even provided mechanical bodies to house feral and protosapient AI, a first, which remains controversial to this day.

Commenting on Ysil, the Naga superstar ‘face’ of the MetaErgonomics division, who was killed last Thursday, and who many insiders considered to be Dacopral’s greatest rival as Kirilenko’s successor, Dacopral had this to say: *“EVO’s strength has always been our diversity and the loss of this one voice, representing, like myself, a community not traditionally classed with ‘metahumans’, is a blow to all EvoCulture. Her design work at MetaErgonomics was revolutionary and formed the foundational biomechanics of much of my own work in drone movement. We regret not just the loss of Ysil’s long and remarkable past, but of all that she could have accomplished in the future. A senseless crime that makes our world make just that much less sense.”*

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