
Escape Pod 896: The AI That Looked at the Sun
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The Unpredictability of Solar Flares
Solar flares are notoriously unpredictable. They disrupt the sun's magnetic field. Without me alert and at my task, dead elastation never stood a chance. The inquiry into the incident stretched for months. There had been similar cases before and all had been written off as deficiencies in the AI systems. I'm going to tell you a secret. Don't worry. I'm not liable for anything I did before the court decision. Anyway, the secret is that I inhabited a body months before I became the first AI legally recognized as a person. That's a human story.
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