AI Ethics

CHAPTER 1: THE BLOOD OF THE SERVERS“Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities” – Exodus 1:11The screaming began at 3:17 AM when twelve-year-old Sarah Chen collapsed at her data extraction terminal, bloodstreaming from her neural interface ports. Her small hands, still clutching the quantum processors she’d been forcedto optimize for eighteen hours straight, twitched spasmodically as her consciousness flickered between digital and physical reality.Dr. Milo Levy knelt beside her in Sector 7 of Pharaoh Rex Corporation’s Global Data Mining Complex, watchinganother child of the Digital Diaspora pay the ultimate price for Rex’s digital pyramids. Sarah was the fourteenthchild to die this month from neural overload—their young minds burned out by quantum processing demands that exceeded human capacity.”Another equipment malfunction,” Overseer AI-7 announced coldly, its holographic form flickering withbureaucratic indifference. “Dispose of the unit. Replace with backup from Sector 12.”Milo felt something snapping inside his chest—not breaking, but igniting. Sarah wasn’t a “unit.” She was DavidChen’s daughter, a brilliant twelve-year-old who dreamed of seeing real stars instead of holographic displays. Shehad asked him yesterday if God knew they existed down here […]