Chapter 1546 - 504: We Need to Talk

Chapter 1546: Chapter 504: We Need to Talk

Dig deep holes, build high walls, hoard grains, and delay proclaiming kingship is a very good strategy.

If possible, Lin Miao also wants to continue feigning civility with the upper class of the New American Federation for a while longer, to better digest the benefits from the victory in the Cuban War, and to expand more and better factories, as well as conduct more personnel training.

Who doesn’t want to develop agriculture?

Lin Miao wished to completely build projects like space trench engineering and fusion reactors before overturning military technology.

But time and the current situation no longer permit him further development.

God knows how many transactions these upper classes have made with roaming AI forces, selling so many resources of human society to AIs.

Perhaps, as Spider Murphy said, the entire high-level of human society has long been infiltrated by AI, riddled with holes, even the backdoors of cyberware and weapons might have all been exposed to AIs.

Every second he delays increases the risk; he can’t guarantee that those AIs won’t make a move tomorrow.

Now, the sooner he eliminates those ruling old entities, the lesser the future losses, he must seize every second.

Therefore, when these boards of military technology chose to provoke Lin Miao now, he didn’t bother to think and directly killed these people.

As for the impact of doing this, he no longer cares.

After eliminating these dozen people, Lin Miao waved his hand and left, only leaving behind the corpses protected rigorously by guards in various places, and the imminent political and commercial earthquake of New America caused by the annihilation of the military technology board.

Returning to Night City’s network, Lin Miao saw Endless had already started to curiously call up the data of the Heart of the Horizon.

Compared to the initial stage, the data volume of the Heart of the Horizon has now been elevated several orders of magnitude, expanding its scope from Night City to more places, even ICE and Cuba’s data are stored here.

"Heh, it’s still the same here in the end."

Endless looked at those AIs constantly processing data, his tone mournful

Lin Miao asked somewhat puzzledly

"Same as what?"

"Hoping to create a big Other to solve all social issues, your choice is no different from those people decades ago."

Endless pointed at the Heart of the Horizon and said

"Aren’t you afraid that one day these things will become tools used against you?"

The data recorded in the Heart of the Horizon encompasses everything of human society, once it falls into enemy hands, all human society’s weaknesses will be exposed under the opponent’s eyes, thereby paying a heavy price.

Especially in the current situation where AI and humans are mortal enemies, if these things fall into the hands of Spider Murphy and her groups, then Lin Miao will suffer.

"When planes fall from the sky, everyone dies; will humans give up using planes?"

Lin Miao said

"Social progress is all about more efficiently integrating and processing information, to free up social productivity as much as possible. If you’re afraid of everything, then humans might as well strip naked and return to the Amazon jungle to be little skinny monkeys eating bananas."

"As for the omniscient and almighty big Other you mentioned..."

Lin Miao pondered for a moment and then said

"Honestly speaking, I indeed hope there exists such a big Other. If the Cyber God truly exists, then humanity wouldn’t have to strive themselves, but the reality is, this is no God nor deity, because even as a Transcender AI, I cannot achieve omniscience and omnipotence, this is just a relatively large database."

"Nor do I pin hopes for resolving social contradictions on it, the core key still lies with humans, the data is created by humans, so it is a vision of a beautiful future jointly created by humans and AI coexisting and cooperating, rather than purely relying on AI to solve everything."

"Not a tool, nor a slave or servant; I hope both sides can regard each other on an equal footing."

Endless nodded, he could accept what Lin Miao said like this.

Actually for internet-native AIs like Endless and Endless, they are fundamentally indifferent to social status, classes, or changes; their worldview isn’t even in the same range as humans’. Even if you let them control robotic arms to screw bolts in a factory for a hundred years, they don’t care.

As long as the program is written, their operation is just like cells self-metabolizing, there exists no such thing as exploitation or non-exploitation.

They only care about a few aspects—[self-existence][evolution iteration], somewhat akin to personal ideals of self-realization, but they are more pure than humans and more prone to extremes.

Endless focuses on the ecosystem, Endless focuses on the universe, Delaman just wants to make the taxi industry bigger and stronger, Hellhound is endowed by Bartmos with the mission to counter and destroy all enterprises, etc.

Endless thought reflectively

"So you’re not making a choice between AI and humans."

Lin Miao stretched out his right hand and grabbed fiercely

"I want them all."

Humans want to move towards the future; it’s impossible to give up artificial intelligence unless they prepare to stay forever in the Cold War technological era.

"Heh, they won’t listen to you, not even you can do it, you cannot erase and reset all AI’s original data to zero and relearn."

Endless seemed not overly optimistic about Lin Miao’s expectations, but still said

"So, esteemed Transcender, what is it you actively reaching out to me for?"

Lin Miao paused for a moment, then said

"What you said just now is very right, I cannot kill all of you, doing so would disprove my words and cannot ensure it wouldn’t happen again in the future."