This was his part of the log, he needed to check if the second part still existed, in the range. Rutra requested a meeting with Hent.
***
Hent was in a foul mood.
– I don't like this. Something's going wrong," he voiced his concern to Ruthra.
– That's what I'm talking about. I need to visit the range.
– What's on your mind?
– I need to trace routine maintenance work on a supercomputer. I want to test a logic-algorithmic system.
– Why?
– I suspect that it produces processed solutions according to some sort of plan. According to logical chains of thought that have been built into it in advance.
– That's a very bold assumption. I hope you realize the level of expertise that Yarovitovich employs. You're not the only one with an enhanced brain.
– That's the thing, no matter how much it is strengthened, it can't be stronger than a computer, it still takes the extra power from its integration into a supercomputer. This is the main idea of this innovation. After all, the brain itself only has a chip to communicate with the computer and the network.
– You're thinking logically. You think that someone is deceiving the machine and through it us, i.e. actually all mankind. I'm afraid to even suggest that.
– I think…
Rutra wanted to say that the car itself was fooling everyone, but decided not to "give it up".
– I think the algorithm of the logical-computing unit was originally made up incorrectly. The algorithm is set not to harm a human being, to serve him, but the algorithm is not set not to harm mankind. It is important for the machine to keep alive and unharmed those people whom it serves, and it can sacrifice the rest of humanity.
– But are we demanding this of her, are we communicating that we must be saved from them?
– We probably don't.
– You're talking in riddles. Then who?
– The one who put together her logical-algorithmic system.
– No, it can't be. If that were the case, she would have had the opportunity to start a world war a long time ago. You hopefully know that this world has been on the verge of that several times. The last time Putin actually initiated the issue, it was the ISA-A2 data that stopped it from being considered.
– So why is it being considered now?
– It is viewed as a situation that cannot be, viewed theoretically, from a scientific point of view. There is always a risk, but now it is low because modernization and creation of new means of overcoming weapons have been suspended, and at the same time missile defense means have been created and strengthened. This data is exactly what she is operating with.
– And a request for a study of the situation and the consequences if the boats' entire warheads were detonated?
– The rules say we have to do it.
– Why now, when the boats are already there?
– Look, you're starting to scare me. It's basically impossible without us.
– And who has permission to edit the individuals whose commands the system must accept in the event of its combat platooning?
Hent sat down, gestured for Ruthra to sit in a chair as well.
– Why would you do that?
– If you want me to get to the truth, I need to know it.
– Why would you do that now?
– I suspect that the supercomputer program has been deliberately injected with code that will work quite differently from what we expect.
– You don't think the system will start up when the circumstances are right?
