ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Audio Book Transcript PERIOD: Pre-Expedition SPEAKER[S]: Strauss, B. [ID: BSTR] TOPIC: On AI, by Dr. Bernard H. Strauss SUMMARY: A partial transcript from On AI, first published in 2472. Audio book read by the author. =================================================================== [BSTR]: …imperative for the secure function and essential to trust in the systems—individually and as a unit. [BSTR]: The Family Suite Protocol was conceived by the joint efforts of the Unified Earth Space Council, Traxus OffWorld Science Works, and a committee of specialized scientists, researchers, and engineers in the aftermath of the Traxus-IV, MarsNet tragedy. [BSTR]: The greatest minds in mechanical thinking and "coded sentience" understood the value in large-scale Artificial Intelligence as a common good across socioeconomic structures. But they also understood the risks. [BSTR]: To be clear, the risks of a compromised intelligence system were well documented prior to Traxus-IV being given control of the Martian Network. However, at the time, "rampancy" was nothing more than a theory supported by limited testing. [BSTR]: With Traxus-IV, its design and engineer Leads planned for every known point of failure with contingencies and support redundancies. On paper, the whole thing should have reverted to dormancy long before any harm could be done—real harm, anyway. [BSTR]: Unfortunately, and unseen by both automated and dedicated monitoring services, Traxus-IV integrated eighty-four percent of its safety systems into itself. Essentially, converting back-ups and fail safes into weaponized extensions of its core operations. By the time this behavior was noted, it was too late. The MarsNet crashed seventeen minutes and twenty-three seconds later. [BSTR]: Seventeen minutes from the identification of a problem to global calamity makes it easy to understand public mistrust of Artificial Intelligence. Much of that mistrust remains. [BSTR]: Some—many—especially the citizens of Mars—still fear A-I. Yet, modern society cannot exist without it. This is where the Family Suite first came into service. [BSTR]: To properly monitor an A-I system required adaptive surveillance—integrated awareness that could identify variance in operations before intention could be put to action. How best to police an A-I than with another A-I? But a one-on-one relationship offered too many opportunities for either intelligence to influence the other. The Family Suite Protocol—three A-I, interlinked but autonomous would operate as a single whole. [BSTR]: Each with their own operational command focus but connected in their coding and technological "D-N-A," allowing for constant two-on-one risk analysis. [BSTR]: Once the Family Suite was implemented it was believed—and remains true to this day—that no single intelligence has the capacity to subvert its programming to reach the thresholds that threaten the system with rampancy. [END TRANSCRIPT] =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [ ]