Our next subject already has
subjects of his own running a simulation of his own within the simulation to
see what results may come from the situations. He’s constructed two
simulations. One is a horror situation where a person wakes up in a hospital
with mad doctors, another is a romance situation where their subject is given
the choice of multiple people to choose from, and the last is a series of
puzzles. While this is happening, our subject is dissecting a human AI.
The AI is so realistic that they
will react realistically to pain, pleasure, fear, and various kinds of physical
pain based off real videos of people suffering. I’d hate to be the programmers
who had to watch those videos on loop until the suffering matched what could be
considered realistic for what is happening to them. The internal organs of the
AI will also act realistically to whatever happens to them. If our subject wishes
for them to be affected by a disease, then their body will look and act
accordingly.
Today, we have a doctor by the name
of Thomas Carter experimenting with our simulation. He was an obvious choice
because of his curiosity and the number of medical advances he has achieved through
his experiments. The man has a history of trying to push the ethical boundaries
of experimentation so he can see if different experiments with yield new cures.
Unfortunately, all his proposals to push ethics are just drafts on his
computer. None of them are convincing enough even with the way he skillfully phrases
things. He wants to take things further, but the technology and his conscious conflict
with his aspirations.
When we came to him and told about
what he could do in our simulation, he quickly accepted it and asked if he
could do it multiple times. We told him that if the work he does now yields
results for both us and him, then he can have as many tries as he wants. So far,
he’s discovered various advances in medicine and different discoveries in the durability
of the human body. Carter is taking great care in documenting and using various
methods of causing pain on his patients. Blunt and sharp weapons, guns, fire,
and acids are just some of the tools he uses to research their effect on
various parts of the human body. It’s a good thing he mutes the
patients because I don’t think I would be able to handle all the screaming and
sleep. Serial killers don’t cause this much pain to their victims in these ways
in their simulations. He must really want to see how the human body reacts to
different factors.
The tests he runs on his “lab rats”
are less painful to watch, even the horror ones. If you’ve ever seen one of
those old movies where the characters have to mutilate themselves to survive,
then you’ve seen Carter’s tests. The romance one plays out differently
depending on the circumstances and characters. Sometimes it’s a romantic comedy,
horror romance, or a sweet romance. The horror romance is the most interesting
to me because this scenario ends up playing out the most because of the scary nature
of being in a relationship. Tensions arise in whether or not the couple is in
love, if one of them is a sociopath or psychopath, or whether or not if the
person who they’re in love with is really the person they fell in love with.
There’s also the fear of losing the person you love, which is one of my
greatest fears. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the puzzle tests. They’re
fine. It’s no different than what we were doing with the AI to test their
intelligence. He’s seeing if the AI is smarter than animals. According to our
tests, they should be smarter than most animals, but they shouldn’t be smarter
than us. We don’t want a robot/AI uprising to happen.
The research Carter is astounding. If
he keeps discovering new things at this rate, he won’t have that many more
sessions with us. The doctor seems to know it and is now taking his time much
to the dismay of his patients. He’s much like our previous patient. Decent in
real life while being a monster in a simulation. A removal of real-world
consequences really does turn man into beast.
Anyways, while he’s twiddling his
thumbs, I’ll write a bit about my sister and me since people liked hearing about
it. It’s funny that she got mad at me for snitching on her when I wrote about
her playing solitaire when she’s bored. She can’t get in trouble, so I don’t
know why she got mad. I guess it was just her being embarrassed. My sister
always tried to be the top of the class, the most athletic, and the most eye-catching person while I, on the other hand, just stayed humbled with my small group
of friends. Her will to do more is probably why she has a higher paying job
than I, but it doesn’t matter to me.
Our family lives in the same house,
and if we need something we can’t get ourselves, one of us will get it for
them. Speaking about the house, do you know the mansion that’s directly above
us? Yeah, that’s our house. I bet you never checked it out because of how intimidating
it looks, the guards around it, and the distance between this facility’s
entrance to the mansion. It’s actually a nice place with a view of the river. I
don’t know why we don’t invite any of you for a holiday or special event. It’s
not like we can’t afford it, or we don’t have enough space. If anything, it’s
because she’s so focused on this project. I swear she’s the reason I barely get
any sleep. Her reason for doing is probably because a-
Oh? It looks like Carter discovered
something. It looks like he distinguished the AI from the real people in the
simulation.
He says, “You didn’t tell me there
were other people in here.”
“It was in the fine print,” our respondent
answers.
“I don’t think it was. Is this one
of your secrets that you want to keep from me?”
“…”
“I’ve read rumors about your
company conducting some rather…strange activities so you can stay ahead in
business. You are rivaled by none in terms of medicine and technology. Your
reach is worldwide, and you are liked by many, but how can that happen with a
single company? Surely it isn’t all divine providence?”
“What are you trying to get at?”
“I must admit I’m jealous you can
do what you do while appearing to be angels on the surface. All I want is what I
asked for with the addition of helping the medicinal section of your company. I’m
not going to ask why real people besides me are in the simulation. I just ask
that you don’t give me any to work on except in the event that I’m curing them
outside of the simulation.”
“You’re hired.”
“Good.”
The good doctor gets back to work
after letting go of the real human. He’s keener than I thought he’d be. I guess
there’s something about the way a real person acts that distinguish them from
an AI. Maybe we should’ve expected it from an experienced doctor like Carter.
He’s going to be very useful to us in the future.
Question:
What will a doctor do when he has the chance to be unethical in his experiments?
Results:
Continue to be ethical. His experiences helped him distinguish between a fake
human and a real one. Even when he had the chance to experiment on a real
person, he threw it away.
Suggestion:
Let Dr. Carter do what he wants. Based on what he did to the AI, it’s best not
to give him a reason to go over his ethical boundaries.
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