#I call CC ‘Evan’ but I know not everybody does

[skyblueartt]

[halcyonminor]

BTW here’s the full dev email from “welcome to typhon” for those who haven’t seen it! it’s really cool (to me at least haha) seeing AI dev stuff back from before s5 came out. also i love the jack thing and i maintain that we need to preserve it

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Seraphim Agent 9 (FUTURE)

From: Evan Brady <ebrady@aidev.typhon>

To: Dev List <devteam@aidev.typhon>, Matthew Morris, Michael Lane, Ric Lea, Howard Young, Rosie Fruin, Melissa Murray, Sarah Murdock, Emily Craft, Maxwell Nelson, Alanna Sas, John Caulfield, AoD Industries, Landan Smith, Fredrick Greenleaf, Samuel Brady, Mike de Gier, Cody Boker, Sean Dayes, Ben Cook, Phillip Canada

CC: Corrine Vasquez <cvasquez@hr.mimir>, Oversight <oversight@omni.typhon>

Hey team!

Ok so I know everybody is excited to play around with the new toy in [REDACTED] but before we open up access past myself and the other [REDACTED] devs there's some info you'll all need to be aware of.

As you can tell by the subject of this email, we consider this a unique intelligence, derived from yet distinct from [REDACTED]. It's been designated FUTURE and should be referred to as such in all interactions.

FUTURE communicates via subcortical implant just like [REDACTED]. This can be a source of confusion, as the voices are very similar to the untrained listener. FUTURE plays into this joke a bit too much on occasion, to try to keep an eye on it when inside [REDACTED]. The containment field around FUTURE will oscillate when it's transmitting, so when you see that you'll know you're hearing FUTURE.

The goal for our work with FUTURE is to develop an AI that not only performs the wide-sweeping functions [REDACTED] is able to accomplish, but does so with a human-like understanding of emotion and humor. When we're done FUTURE should feel less like a talking [REDACTED] and more like a very likable and competent co-worker.

Last thing, and I don't know exactly when it started, but FUTURE won't call any of the researchers by name anymore. If you interact with it, it will likely call you "resident" or, if you're playing a game together, [REDACTED]. I pressed FUTURE about this and he claims it refers to the "[REDACTED] in the Box"; the box in this situation would be the human body.

So... yeah.... that's not icky or anything.

Anyway, please schedule a time with Howard before jumping into interactions with this thing. We'll likely wipe the instance within the next few weeks and start fresh, just building on what works and trying to work around what doesn't. I look forward to reading your proposals after you get a chance to play with FUTURE!

Sincerely,

Evan Brady #440019 AI Development Overseer Halcyon Tower