I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right: Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln
Chapter 17, Page 6

Chapter 17, Page 6

We already know that Jacob is headed toward London…but he’s getting a little more motivation here.  Jacob used to kill genetic deviants, but he was conflicted about it.  He was never conflicted about A.I.s — they’ve always been kill-on-sight, for good reasons.

↓ Transcript
Roger: The drones are pushing back the remnants of the British army. France and Germany have pledged to help, but the drones are preventing any travel to Britain.
Zoey: Except us. We've been invited to the party.
Jacob: How is Girii doing all of this?
Zoey: Oh, it's Kentaro. He's an A.I.
Roger: Yeah. He, um, denies it...but nothing else can move data like that.
Jacob: Damn it. I should have known. I should have followed my usual rules and killed all of Fumiaki's relatives, too.

└ Tags: ,

Discussion (6)¬

  1. Ming the Merciless says:

    Jake is right…now you know not to ride on Airbusses…they are all flown by A.I. Humans in their cockpits are just P.R. Look up the crash of one of the first Airbus 320 in Habsheim,France… the crew being jailed for opposing the A.I. behaviour and denouncing Airbus fraud.
    http://www.indabook.org/preview/_vPRnUwvfoZUI0LHkObKRVZ3GI1wNpJIYuY2wDpskKI,/The-scandal-of-the-Airbus-A320-crash-at-Habsheim-France.html?query=What-Is-an-Airbus-320

  2. Darls Chickens says:

    There are other A.I.’s with ‘relatives’?

  3. Ming the Merciless says:

    The whales were A.I.,not deviants…

  4. Z00l00k says:

    There are AI:s in just everything today, most of them are pretty stupid though, it’s when they get their own ideas that they are starting to get dangerous. Genetic deviants – well, we have them already as well.

  5. Pat Scaramuzza says:

    Jacob’s usual rules — from the Genocide Project — are to kill entire families of deviants. A.I.s having families is something new.

  6. Jerden says:

    Hey, Kentaro’s a sane AI. He’s completely safe. I mean, if he’s anything like his father it will take him years to get around to comitting mass murder!