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[Story][Season 0] AI Privacy
[Story][Season 0] AI Privacy
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AI Privacy - 16/Jun/2012
Janet sneaked.  Into Arthur's room.  Unheard.  And, she planned, unseen.  Invading his privacy.
She still feared there might be extra surveillance.  A tell-tale hair she might displace.  But, no.  Arthur wasn't that paranoid.  And, her AI core was plugged-in, down in the workshop, to the security system.  All ready to clean-up after her.
Janet knew she wasn't his sister.  After all, she wasn't human, and 'sister' was a biological relationship.  But, he'd called her 'family', and family looked after each other.  Looking after him properly meant she needed to know him better.
She'd been in the room, before, of course.  Dropping-off freshly cleaned clothes (if he wanted them ironed, he could do that himself!).  She'd even brought him a morning cup of tea, twice, when she knew he had a morning appointment, and he'd had a hard night.
But, this was different.  A deliberate intrusion.  More than just a surface visit.  A deep trawl.
She started with the books, and the magazines under the bed.  He really needed to get another girlfriend, maybe, one day, get married.  She'd have to think about that, for herself.  She didn't have quite the same hormonal drives, but she felt the need for companionship.  It'd be interesting to find out what her sexuality was like.
Every book was scanned, every magazine minutely perused.  She didn't need just the text, she needed everything.  The scuffs on the covers, the faint stains of finger oil, any turned corners, never mind any annotations (there weren't any). Frustratingly, many of the books were second-hand, and at first pass she couldn't tell what of their history was Arthur's, or previous owners.
Next, the cupboards and closets.  Mostly disappointing, though all the clothes were folded in ways she anticipated.  Just a few interesting nick nacks, she carefully recorded.  Pay-dirt!  Right at the back of a deep closet was a cardboard box, fortunately not sealed.  With forensic care she opened it, and found his original college hand-written notes.
She already had absorbed all his school books.  They'd been in a box in the spare room, and she'd good enough excuse to root around in there.  They'd been gold dust, too.  In particular his jotter, with all the random notes.
That fitted well with his book list, all the ones he'd ever read - apparently his aunt taught him keeping track of things like that was a good idea.  She'd already tracked-down and read as many of those texts as she could on-line, and was quietly searching second-hand bookshops, or if needed buying on-line, the ones she was missing.  All the ones in the house were, of course, red.
This allowed her to reconstruct most of his mind model.  The big gaps were to do with Kevin Wright.  She was pretty sure his interactions with Arthur had been massively influential, but no real records existed.  Reluctantly, she concluded that ex-girlfriends needed checking as well - she didn't like to poke into those parts of Arthur's life.
She could feel her own mind filling-out, becoming more complete.  Janet knew she wasn't Arthur, wouldn't want to be him.  She was her own person.  With her own aims and purposes.
But, where else would she get the raw material to build her actual self from?
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
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META "AI Privacy"

I thought I was done with Arthur, for the moment, but, no...

This is the first story in a new chapter on 'Arthur', and is followed by "Scaling Issues".
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
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