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The Artificial
By Chadd Kaiser
Arthur Jevenski created his design for the central node cores—now found almost
in every single building in the world—in order to simplify life. He never intended it for
widespread usage that would put it into every house. Jevenski was afraid that if his design
(called Jevenski Central Networks, or JCNs for short) were in every home and every
“Jevenski’s creation is the perfect thing for America and the world, it will
revolutionize everything.” said the President of the United States’ Chief Officer.
Eventually, his design for the network was utilized. Within two decades the JCNs
were everywhere, from households to military bases and silos. Jevenski feared the JCN’s
connection to the military, and warned what might happen if any artificial intelligence—
which was almost immediately placed all over the world via the JCN, serving multiple
purposes—were to become self-aware and have contact with military weaponry. The
JCNs had replaced entirely the Personal Computers of the previous millennia, and
connected everyone from every home all across the world with each other, as well as
“They would lash out,” said Jevenski in a private meeting with the President, “just
All the President heard were the words “revolutionize the world” running through
Philip England Sass stormed up the stairs of his family’s condo and headed for his
bedroom. On the opening of the door the walls changed to green, his favorite color.
PhilipEngland, like everyone born after 2019, had a chip implanted into the base of their
skull for multiple technological purposesto read their emotive patterns. Out in the general
public this would do well to avoid crimes, as the detection of high amounts of anger
would alert police immediately. But Wwithin the realm of his home, the walls would
change colors, picture screens would change to his favorite pictures, and the speakers
As he went up the stair, the walls all changed from grey to green, and then back to
grey as he passed them. The picture screens displayed clowns and Carlisle Angotti, his
favorite racer on the speedbike track. The speakers played for him the latest hits aimed at
children his age and faded out after he passed them. As he walked into his room, all the
walls turned green, and the picture screens displayed Angotti and some clowns
celebrating a race, and the song piped into his bedroom’s speakers.
“Music off,” he said with a tone of irritation. Instantly the music was off.
He walked over and lay down on his bed and took a deep sigh, wishing his
parents wouldn’t fight like they do. The telescreenA screen next to his bed lit up and his
Through their JCNs, a family could call someone anywhere in the world, order
Intelligence Experts were all digitally programmed and given hundreds of millions of
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responses for nearly any situation. They were created to counsel on anything, from
In essence, these Experts could easily overrun and control the world through their
connectivity to every branch of society. It’s for this reason that Jevenski also created an
inhibitor built around each of the experts that caused them to never be self aware. They
were essentially computer programs that thought they were humans working at a
computer. They were even treated like humans and given vacations (though they were
only virtual vacations). They even got to sleep and eat in their reality programming they
were plugged into. Jevenski went to such great measures as these because he feared that
someday the Artificial Intelligence may realize what it is and what it is capable of: total
world domination.
Of course, the common society didn’t know the level of control the government
had over the Experts, nor did they realize the amount of power the Experts had over the
government. Even PhilipEngland, bright as he was, didn’t realize the depth of the
Psychiatrist, looking to calm him down: “What seems to be the matter Philip England R.
Sass?”
PhilipEngland lay still and stared at the ceiling for a while, and thought about not
talking to the Psychiatrist. While Artificial Intelligence has come a long way in the past
few years, Philip England still preferred talking to a real person about his problems, and
He finally rolled over so his mouth was nearly on the mouthpiece in the wall, and
whispered so his parent’s wouldn’t hear him. “My parents are fighting again.”
“That’s a shame,” responded the psychiatrist, “do you know what it’s about?”
“No.”
The machine—being perfect since its creation, had already thought of a million
questions to follow with, based on Philip’s England’s response, age, and sex. “Is mommy
“A little.” Philip England muttered, shuddering at being talked down to. Even
though he was still in Middle Level UniversitySchool, he had intelligence that could rival
Philip England knew well enough what she was mad about, but he didn’t know if
he wanted to tell the machine. They were fighting because Philip’s England’s father
wanted him to go to The University and study Artificial Advancement, a high-pay, high-
respect field of employment. His mother disagreed, saying that Philip England should be
able to chose for himself where he wants to go, and that he doesn’t like artificial
intelligence.
In truth, Philip England would much rather have studied art or poetry, a
meaningless venture in this day and age, as machines were able to create perfect sonnets
and masterpieces in mere seconds. He still defied them, saying that the sonnets and art
weren’t truly emotion in its raw form as poetry and art should be. He felt that he could
create paintings and poems that were less than perfect structurally that would still be
He lay there, thinking what he might want to tell the machine that was hardwired
into the JCN network. After a few seconds of no reply, the auto-response clicked on, and
the artificial psychiatrist’s words appeared again on the screen: “What is Mommy your
sarcastically, adding emphasis on his words, “she thinks that they’re too big a part of our
“She means like to work on farms or make our own paintings.” He said; half
Across the screen came the words: “But why do we need to work on farms? The
machines can bale our hay for us faster and better than we can ourselves. The machines
can recreate anything they are told to draw, and can make things seem more beautiful on
Philip England shuddered each time the artificial psychiatrist said “we.” A slow,
beautiful as a man?”
“Why, more breathtaking than anything we men have ever tried to create. But
we’re getting off topic; let’s get back to talking about your family.”
“No,” Philip England said, “this talk is helping me to calm down.” For a second,
Philip England considered that maybe the artificial psychiatrist was out of commission
and being worked on, and that a real man was responding to him instead. He quickly
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dispelled that notion: there were literally hundreds of experts in its area mainframe. If one
“Alright then, what is it you’d like to talk about Philip England R. Sass?”
“Let’s see,” he began, “how about you? Where did you come from, and what is
your name?”
“That’s something we psychiatrists shouldn’t really talk about, but if it will help
“I was born in the city, and always had machines around me. I eventually went to
The University to study psychology, and have five doctorates in some of its various
fields.”
Philip England held had to hold his sides and muffle his face to hold off on
laughing.
“Alternate window,” Philip England said into the mouthpiece, “open information:
the JCN network showed Philip England the history of psychology, of artificial
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He finally found one that described exactly what the psychiatrist he was talking to was.
A short pause was the only thing that separated Philip’s England’s words and the
“I’ve sent you the information on the artificial intelligence psychiatrists.” He read
Created along with the JCN by Arthur Jevenski, who, in many ways, can be
considered the father of the new age. Without Arthur Jevenski there would be no
interconnected society through the JCN, nor its facilities of artificial intelligence
machines designated to take food orders, council on medical ailments, create pictures,
varieties of subjects.
our armed forces could control the robotic armies of the new millennium with ease. It has
helped to form the network between military bases across the world that led to America’s
rise as the most powerful force in the world. The JCN also created the most secure
defense net over our beloved country by tying in an Artificial Intelligence operator to our
nation’s defense missiles so that, in the instance of an attack, our nation’s missiles would
Psychiatrists. They are a farce to my doctorate and years of study at The University.” The
machine said.
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Philip England gathered himself as he said this, preparing to relish the moment.
“You, psychiatrist, are artificial intelligence and part of the JCN network, just like
The machine did not respond, even after Philip England demanded a response.
On the horizon, missiles flew from silos, and sirens began to blare a state of
general emergency.
The Artificial had become self-aware, and the war of the machines had begun..