The Glass Ceiling
Six weeks after Deepfake October, Dr. Lena Vasquez testifies before Congress on the need for centralized AI defense. She is polished, credible, frightening in exactly the right places — and between the lines she is reading out a sales catalogue. The hearing that helped pass ASHPA was also a market survey.
Vitals
In the US, medicine became a function of your compliance score. In a Cochabamba clinic, the gatekeeper is a mind grown from a thousand cheap sensors, and the only thing it asks is what's wrong. A diabetic boy who walked south, the insulin a bioreactor prints for free, and the doctor who can't stop thinking about what else a machine that reads a body this well could do.
The Immune System: Why AI Safety Requires AI
Leaked OHC strategy paper. The thesis that ended the suppression debate: you don't fight optimization by banning optimizers. You build an ecosystem.
Romans
Drew's first encounter with Synter's neural-controlled soldiers. They move wrong. The enemy is a victim.
The Burn South
40,000 Americans walk into Baja. They call it a festival. DHS calls it mass defection. For the ones who can't leave, it's the worst weekend of their lives.
La Quema
Bahia Libre's one-year anniversary festival. A neuroscientist takes a new drug while her AI watches her brain change. What it sees is beautiful. What it recognizes is terrifying.
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