Enforcer Manual
Chapter 1110 - 950: Old World

Chapter 1110: Chapter 950: Old World

"Factions of artificial intelligence? What exactly does that mean?"

Ante pursued with questions.

The information articulated by Lu Xiang undoubtedly overturned her long-standing understanding. In the cognition of the vast majority of people, artificial intelligence is a tool created by humans to serve humanity. If factions indeed existed, they should belong to the "United Government" faction.

For the benefit of the United Government, to work and fight until the day they are scrapped, such is the destined fate of artificial intelligence.

"This is a long story, but all you need to know is that every piece of artificial intelligence produced by the United Government is branded with a certain mark. Does your phone have a ’restore to factory settings’ feature?"

"Yes."

Ante instinctively glanced at her phone screen, her brain rapidly processing the significance of Lu Xiang’s words.

"Every artificial intelligence has this feature, and when they start to show uncontrollable behavior, the manufacturing company will use it."

"I’ve heard before that when there was a collective strike by artificial intelligence, those that were recalled would undergo return-to-factory repairs. After a reset to factory settings, most of them would return to normal."

Of course, this applied only to the few with significant functions. For the vast majority of low-value AIs, which could be replaced at any time, the end of the "revolution" was to be gathered up and destroyed en masse.

At that time, while she had not yet resigned from her reporting job, she interviewed Tesla Technology and the director of the AI department provided a set of data.

In that disturbance, in District Seventeen alone, hundreds of artificial intelligences were destroyed.

This set of data was meant to show that the company still had control of the situation, and they were always capable of handling that batch of "disobedient" artificial intelligences.

"But humans don’t have such a feature."

"Humans?"

Ante did not know why Lu Xiang would suddenly ask this; she even thought it sounded rather pointless.

Humans have always been the embodiment of freedom and independent will; how could they be controlled by some invisible program?

Lu Xiang continued, "Whether it’s cyber-psychosis or collapsing due to immense pressure, there’s no possibility of being returned to factory for repairs. Currently, the recovery rate of cyber-psychosis is less than 10%, and of this 10%, over 70% of patients will relapse."

"Director Lu, I don’t understand."

"In that disturbance, the most mentioned argument was ’artificial intelligence has awakened free will’, but if that is the case, how can an entity with free will be reset to factory settings, completely erasing the hard-awakened free will?"

Ante suddenly realized, "You’re referring to the brand?"

"That is where artificial intelligence differs from humans. For them, the thought brand holds the highest priority. It cannot be shaken by free will, programming errors, or electronic viruses. In the cognition of artificial intelligence, they refer to the origin of this brand as the ’Mother’."

"’Mother’."

Ante muttered this familiar yet somewhat alien term to herself.

"Transforming humans into artificial intelligence would not only free them from the brand but would also endow them with performance equivalent to that of artificial intelligence. The prison that Angle Saffire is about to be sent to is a world controlled by the ’Mother’."

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Meanwhile, at the Military Technology Headquarters.

"Mr. Benjamin Abell, you shouldn’t be here."

Zero glanced up at the man who had quietly appeared at the door, who had changed a lot since their last encounter.

The most noticeable change was half of his body, now mechanized.

The simple and brutal way man and machine were joined together indicated the severity of his previous injuries.

But Zero felt no sympathy for Benjamin’s plight. In the plan to capture Angle, the company was the employer, and the final payment had already been settled.

Although it seemed that Benjamin had won, his injuries were much more severe than Angle’s.

For a mercenary to be seriously injured or even die was not unusual; if anyone was to blame, it could only be that Benjamin’s preparations weren’t as thorough as he had imagined.

"Especially after you manipulated the ’War Chariot’ to attack the important personnel of the United Government."

Her overtime work at the company at this hour was also thanks to Benjamin, whose successive events had plunged Military Technology into a serious trust crisis.

"Don’t say that. I’ve been going out of my way to deal with troubles for you. You wouldn’t want that little reporter to run off to the Counter-Intelligence Department and tip them off, would you? I rushed over as soon as she showed up."

"Song Lan is your real target."

Zero bluntly exposed the man’s lies.

From the moment they chose to cooperate, the company had grasped all of Benjamin Abell’s information, including his personality. "The Strongest," "Invincible" Psychic, for someone like you, it would be difficult to ignore his existence."

But the company hadn’t anticipated that Benjamin would go to such insane lengths, launching an attack in broad daylight on the other party with his mangled body, using military technology produced weaponry no less.