Educational General Academic Research Unit aka “Edgar” is part of the first production line of non-limited Artificial Intelligence’s. He is currently one of the House Tindal researchers, and is Professor Gage’s second-in-command. Also one of the members of the Crystal One development team.
Jeremy Haas, cosmologist. Creator of the Haas Deep Space observatory. One of the members of the original Crystal One development team with Clarence Gage,Edgar, Kathleen Adair, and James Thalim.
Kathleen Adair, Theoretical Physicist and childhood friend of Hakon BlackAxe. Best friend of Clarence Gage, and primary member of the Crystal One team.
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
Ohhh yeah, Michael.
To translate the data, they need the data: Would you trust their translations?
What sort of fail safe were their designers implementing (and why) when they ensured the towers couldn’t see the upload information?
It makes sense from a “Role-Based Access Control” perspective. The tower AI would be perfect as front-line operators. They have full ability to perform daily operations, maintenance, security and administrative tasks. Low effort, daily, repetitive tasks and whatever else is needed to keep the lights on. The humans, on the other hand, require Admin access to the high-level functionality that you don’t trust to automation. Stuff you don’t do every day, but is considered “mission critical” and probably needs multiple layers of approval where everything is locked down. I don’t doubt for a minute that the Migration System can only be accessed by a “Privileged Access Workstation” that some fool left logged in all these years. Honestly, if that terminal doesn’t have a password protected screen saver on it, Gage just needs to zero out the upload of whomever was in charge of tower Identity and Access Control.
To translate the data, they need the data: Would you trust their translations?
What sort of fail safe were their designers implementing (and why) when they ensured the towers couldn’t see the upload information?