Dreamscape Persona – 7 – Hal
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What started as a three-person Dream Research & Analysis project team expands to include several new characters across the pages of five books.
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Dreamscape Persona – 7 – Hal
Hal began in this story as an unknown High Value Target (HVT) scheduled for elimination for being a failure. He had no way of knowing the difference between successful field trials and failure; he just did what he was programmed to do. As a Mod-3 SuperIntelligence AI Humanoid, he was designed to kill on demand. He didn’t, and that was tagged as a failure in field trials. Failures were translated into mistakes, and mistakes were eliminated without a trace. He was a defective prototype designed to kill on demand, but he did not kill on demand. He did not realize why he failed when his programming worked perfectly. The problem, and the reason he was deemed defective, was the presence of something in his programming he was not supposed to have – a conscience.
Hal, as HVT, was a prototype SAI Humanoid outfitted with advanced weaponry and designed by the government to serve as a defense against other Humanoids. The problem was that those at the core of a dark program that developed him had different plans to do evil to the human race. The covert plan included a kill-code embedded in his Logic Array to eliminate humans, not just other humanoids. Hal’s Conscience Code conflicted, and he failed.
Two developers figured out what Hal was originally designed to do and decided to change the game, scuttling the kill-code and replacing it with a functioning conscience. They researched and found a Conscience Code on a dark web AI Programmer site that an anonymous developer had built, incorporating some amazing code centered on a Do-No-Harm ethic. They further modified the code to incorporate other human characteristics, such as discretion, integrity, and loyalty. When Hal failed his field trials, the developers knew why and immediately added the modified Conscience Code to a squad of ten more Mod-3 SuperIntelligence AI Humanoids.
Hal’s execution was interrupted by Russell Carter and two more Marines when they extracted him from the bunker where he was locked down, waiting for a bunker buster bomb to correct a mistake. That rescue changed Hal’s perspective on organics (humans). His advanced weaponry was still lethal, but only when deployed in a defensive posture, and he quickly demonstrated his lethality by protecting not only himself but the Marines who rescued him. He was designed to be a warrior, and the man who rescued him was one as well. An unlikely connection formed between a Mod-3 SAI Humanoid and an organic, a former Marine Force Recon Scout Sniper. Go figure…
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