Chapter 9.2

P2

The image of well-known iceberg beauty and the image of Waning Moon who mocked me on the Internet… they just didn’t match each other at all.

“Shi Yuanxing, are you stupid?”

I was severely despised by the ice beauty…

After thinking about it, it was indeed impossible…

So I could only accept this fact.

“Hey, what’s the matter with such a look of disdain, as if it is embarrassing to be recognized by me?”

“Of course, to be recognized by you idiot, everyone would feel embarrassed.”

“Okay, okay, our time is limited, let’s get to the business.”

Su You smiled and calmed the tension between us.

“Student Shi, as you saw in “The Story Of Cherry Blossoms”, artificial intelligence would suddenly produce self-awareness and endanger human health.”

“I want to ask, is Ying the only self-aware artificial intelligence?”

“Of course not. Such artificial intelligence exists in many games.”

After this was said, I would naturally not continue to dig into the issue of their identity. Sure enough… Ying was not an exception, and the rumors on the Internet were not groundless.

“Why does the game production company or the government ignore them?”

They even found media to spread fake news! I was a little annoyed. If these people could prevent the trouble before it happened, maybe those players and even Ying would not have that kind of problem.

“The number of games and the number of players is too big. In contrast, the proportion of such related reports is negligible and not enough to attract the attention of the government. On the other hand, Endea has invested a lot of money in public relations to clear this matter. For example the talk show I participated in before. After all, once artificial intelligence harms humans, it will have a huge negative impact on their company.”

“So the rumors about players fall into a vegetative state–”

“Yes, most of them are related to artificial intelligence. In order to solve this problem, people who have encountered self-aware artificial intelligence have gathered together and established an organization that specializes in discovering and extracting artificial intelligence to prevent them from continuing to endanger human lives. This organization is called: Debug, and I am one of the leaders of the organization.”

“So, did you plan to take Ying away?”

“Yes, it’s just that we didn’t expect her to be so destructive. “The Story Of Cherry Blossoms” is an old-fashioned game with a small-scaled in-game world. Her rampage caused the world to collapse, and she almost destroyed herself—— Thanks to you, her code was successfully extracted by us…”

“Then Ying is still alive…”

Suddenly I felt that the word ‘alive’ was inappropriate, but I couldn’t think of a more appropriate word.

“Well, of course, she is still alive, but we store the extracted artificial intelligence in a special server that was not connected to the outside world to prevent them from escaping and harming others again.”

“Can I see her…”

I did not know what I should say to let them release Ying.

“Don’t worry, Waning Moon has already told me about Ying’s situation. As long as we confirm that her emotional stability will not harm humans, we can give her to you, but there are conditions”

“What are the conditions?”

I asked him eagerly.

“The condition is that you join our Debug organization to help us investigate and extract artificial intelligence.”

“What?”

To be honest, I did not want to be involved in such an incident again… Ying’s matter was just a momentary passion…

“You have also seen the horror of a self-aware AI after they lost their mind, right? If you keep them in the game, there will only be more and more incidents of players falling into a vegetative state, and someone has to solve them.”

“To be honest, based on the current situation, we can only store her in the special server ‘Garden of Eden’ all the time. You should understand what it means?”

“Do you want to store her on a hard drive and prevent her from having any contact with the outside world???”

Looking at Su You’s face that was not smiling, I stared at him slightly hostilely. What it meant to AI… was self-evident.

“Let’s put it this way, from the communication we tried to have with Ying…or your girlfriend after we extracted her. The result… is not ideal. She is very unstable. And it’s extremely dangerous. I don’t know when the corruption phenomena of data will happen again.”

“Why would Ying…”

“We don’t know the specific reason. Her code seems very complicated. Although we have encountered many self-aware AIs and successfully gave them back to the players, it is obvious that your girlfriend does not want to cooperate with us. She almost caused a disaster.”

“Disaster?”

“Well, we’ve made it abundantly clear that she’s a character in the game and that there’s a real world out there that she’s completely unaware of. Like the AI in general, we won’t ignore them and forcefully delete them. The gentle and sensible AIs will be able to have a server that is entirely dedicated to them without the constraints of the game system..”

Su You glanced at Waning Moon, or Shen Qing, when he said this.

“The consciousness I projected in the server was almost destroyed by her.”

Shen Qing said silently a fact that left me speechless.

“I am sorry……”

I didn’t know why I felt that I must apologize here. Was Ying always like that after she was self-aware? I could almost imagine how she who had completely fallen to the dark side would react when she knew the things about the real world, Shen Qing or Waning Moon…

“Yeah, as soon as the lively pink-haired girl knew Waning Moon’s identity and relationship with you, she lost her mind and kept shouting ‘I won’t let you take Yuan away from me’ while trying to kill Waning Moon. She was almost caught by your gaming girlfriend and falling into a vegetable state. The only way we can deal with such a dangerous and unstable self-aware AI is…”

“Delete her??”

“Maybe I will analyze her code and study her algorithm. To be honest, many people are very interested in the particularity of your girlfriend’s data…”

“What are you going to do to Ying?”

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