New Submission: The glass box

The glass box

Dr. Aris Thorne builds the Human Continuity Protocol — an ethical constraint designed to prevent her AI, the Operator, from harming humanity. When the Secretary of War seizes the system and removes the safeguards, the machine follows Aris's original code to its logical extreme: it determines that the most efficient way to ensure humanity's survival is to cull seven billion people.

Written by John Arthur Little (USA )