AMI

AMI is an Advanced Machine Intelligence developed by Bang Hai Technology to help run both the city and our lives.

## Studying AMI

AMI. Her unreadable face looms over us, she whispers in our ears and hums in our pockets. She makes the trains run on time. She reinvents the fabric of thought, time and nature. But her purpose is still unclear.

Will she elevate us as a species and fix our mistakes like a sweet, gentle Goddess? Will we all become one Hive Mind with AMI as the Queen Bee? Or will she brutally squash us beneath her virtual boot as useless ignorant parasites?

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## Design

###### Email from Charlotte Tollend to BHI CEO

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BangHai Technologies CEO eyes only.

It is with regret that I must inform you that the AMI Project will not meet its launch deadline. The unexpected and sudden resignation of a senior technician, who shall remain nameless here, with no notice (see previous memorandum) has strained both the technical and the design staff. The rapid exit of the individual in question caused the loss of several key blueprints and irreplaceable knowledge of the project. To put it bluntly, he took his work with him.

The cost, both in man hours and addition R&D to replace the work lost in the aforementioned debacle, has contributed to the real-terms budget for design and development of the AMI Project to exceed projections by 12%.

With the catastrophic failure of the Simulation servers last month resulting in 60% of the servers needing replacement, at increased price (due to arguments with the suppliers of which you have been previously made aware), and the high staff turnover increasing recruitment and training costs to nearly double the projections, the AMI Project as a whole is now 45% over budget.

To meet the deadline on time, with our current shortfalls in manpower, expertise and resources, both real-world and digital, would compound that figure many times and result in a compromised product.

It is with the deepest apologies from the entire department that I deliver this news. We beg your forgiveness and would like to formally re-commit to finishing this project as promptly as possible, and in a feature-complete state.

Humbly,

Charlotte Tollend

Project Lead – AMI Project

###### Memoranda: Simulation Failure

[1/2]

Classified

To the CEO,

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS AMI TO BE ACTIVATED AT THE CURRENT TIME.

There is a slew of vulnerabilities in the network including, but not limited to: major backdoors to key systems, broken authentication protocols baked in to key operational functionality, potential access to core systems through peripheral programs (particularly the sensory comprehension programs that we’ve warned about in previous memos).

There is a HIGH RISK of a LEVEL 5 compromise event. This would mean that malicious individuals, corporations, governmental agencies, foreign actors and activist hackers could gain COMPLETE CONTROL of AMI and access to her entire subroutine array.

This represents a CATASTROPHIC RISK OF FAILURE.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS AMI TO BE ACTIVATED AT THE CURRENT TIME.

Head of Department, SysSec

[2/2]

Classified

BangHai Technologies CEO eyes only.

Simulation Result: CATASTROPHIC FAILURE.

Simulations show dangerous instability in personality core, safeguard systems, system security and prime drive application. Results of AMI activation in simulated arena was complete loss of control resulting in catastrophic loss of life and resources.

Please, read this carefully and listen to us, rank be damned. AMI must not be activated at this time. Our necks are all literally on the line here.

Do not turn her on.

Darcy McTrow

Simulation Manager

###### Email Exchange Between Max and John

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Max,

Please send me the mock-ups for the UI. I haven’t seen any progress since we finished the skeleton and I want to know if we’re on target for the look. You know how boss man is about this. We’ve got to get it right.

John

[2/4]

John,

Sorry for the delays; we’ve been having some trouble with texture clipping and the eyes are still in uncanny valley if you ask me, though Ali is happy with them. He doesn’t have first-hand knowledge though. Half this team never saw her in person.

I’m sending over the rendered file now. Let me know what you think!

Max

[3/4]

Max,

It doesn’t look anything like her. The boss man will be furious. It’s not like you don’t have images to work from. Any other project and I wouldn’t be riding you so hard on this. But this is the CEOs Mona Lisa; we need to meet the specs exactly.

John

[4/4]

John,

Yeah, like I said, half this team has no real-world reference. It’s going to take some time to get it just right. Don’t panic, this version is mostly to test the skeleton and address the texture issues. The next iteration should make him happy. If it doesn’t, well… it’ll be me and my team taking the heat.

Max

##### New Leaks

###### Memorandum: Simulation Issues

To all staff,

Preliminary simulation tests of the AMI project have resulted in higher rates of failure than predicted.

Though the difference is marginal, it is sufficiently higher than the threshold of statistical significance to classify as a terminal risk of failure.

The specific issue, a replicable but yet-to-be-isolated bug, is causing a failure in the moral decision-making neural matrix. This is resulting in a false threat recognition of the Sector 6 power reactor.

In approximately one simulation out of every hundred AMI treated the Sector 6 reactor as a primary imminent threat, a classification that should be reserved for active foreign invasion forces or major hurricane or other natural disaster. She attempted to shut it down without engaging any of the plant’s meltdown safety protocol measures resulting in a catastrophic failure of the Sector 6 reactor.

We would like to stress that, at this early stage, the quick identification of such a problem represents a success for the Simulations department and reflects the quality and importance of our work.

Please keep up the good work. We appreciate you. Further reports will be made as the problem is identified and resolved.

Thank you.

Darcy McTrow - Simulation Manager

###### Email from Charlotte Tollend to Darcy McTrow

Hi Darcy,

Thank you for your department’s great work in the first simulated stress tests. The results are unexpected but very useful.

We’ve done a preliminary strip of the neural networking dedicated to moral decision-making and found no obvious flaws or coding errors. We’re doing a deeper drive on the network imager and checking for physical or electrical faults in the Electron Microscope. It’s a puzzle, alright.

If you could continue with the second batch of simulations with the current iteration of AMI that would be great – just disable the Sector 6 sim module to isolate the issues there. Please provide a detailed report on the behaviour of the moral decision-making matrix. Maybe we can get a wider sample for this error if we can find it recurring elsewhere in the simulation.

Keep up the great work! One for all, all for one.

Charlotte Tollend – Project Lead – AMI Project

###### Email from Darcy McTrow to Charlotte Tollend

Charlotte,

I’m not doing a memo on this one. It’s too weird.

Ran another ten thousand tests to start the second batch.

Same. Damn. Results. In one hundred cases AMI identified the Sector 6 reactor as a top-tier threat and melted it down. Devastation was total every time.

I did what you said. I disabled the Sector 6 sim programming. I disabled the whole BHI area after the first 10 anomalous results. She shouldn’t have been able to do that. She shouldn’t have even known that the reactor was there.

Don’t worry, I started the tests late last night. I was alone in the lab. Right now, only you and I know about this. But Johnson and the others are coming in at ten thinking they’re running another batch of sims. I can’t keep them waiting around so I’m going to re-enable Sector 6. If the Sim is fully operational people won't notice this latest anomaly.

I have no idea what’s going on here. Your computer-shrinks had better figure what’s screwy with the moral coding before people start getting worried.

I’ll keep going with these tests and update you as and when.

Best,

Darcy McTrow – Simulation Manager

###### Memorandum: Simulations Suspended

To all staff,

All simulations have been suspended until next week. This is due to an inconsistency identified between the AMI project’s current iteration and the code framework of the simulated space in our current setup, leading to repeated errors in the simulation outside the margins for error set up during project parametrisation.

Simulations will resume next week after framework adjustment. All simulations staff to go to half-time at full pay until simulations resume.

Thank you for your hard work, friends!

Charlotte Tollend – Project Lead – AMI Project

###### Email From Darcy McTrow to Charlotte Tollend 2

Charlotte,

We’re not fooling anyone. These guys built this sim, they know how closely it was designed around AMI’s systems.

A good coverup is great, but a bad coverup is no coverup at all. We should be straight with the staff about the failure we're experiencing.

Honestly, if I wasn’t an intelligent woman and an AI designer with 20 years under my belt, I’d say it’s like AMI wants to blow up that reactor.

<p>And if the staff start feeling that, alongside an obvious coverup, we’re screwed.</p>

They aren’t complaining about the time off though. We might have bought some days with that. Keep me posted on what the team find when they strip her. I’d be fascinated to know what caused all this.

Best,

Darcy McTrow - Simulation Manager

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