17 Data Records

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Data Records Set - 6522

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Disclaimer:

The following is a set of extracts derived from [redacted] Belov's record logs, made open to the public after having gone through multiple screenings and having been censored accordingly.

Although this data is open for public use, like other pieces of data available on this site, misuse of this data that may potentially lead to harm to the Intergalactic Terran Confederation will lead to varying degrees of punishment depending on the severity of the crime.

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Date: [redacted]/[redacted]/[redacted]

This is [redacted] Belov here to gladly report that Project [redacted] has finally experienced a success.

The latest prototype, designated as 'Subject T-34' was able to successfully pass all the parameters required to be regarded as an 'intelligent life form.'

Unlike typical droids, these new prototypes which we at the department have now dubbed as 'synthetics' or 'synths' for short are capable of thinking beyond their programming and are even capable of experiencing 'abstract thoughts.'

Although I do believe that we will have to face some ethical issues later down the line or perhaps even right now, I also believe that these trivial things can be put aside to make room for progress.

As [redacted] [redacted] said, 'we could quite possibly have achieved the greatest success ever accomplished by humanity.' For an 'innovator' who emphasises progress like myself, I could only agree with [redacted] words.

But there is still so much work to be done. Subject T-34 is only one of many prototypes produced and set for production, and there are still so many tests that need to be done and improvements that could be made.

We already have the T-35 and T-36 scheduled for testing alongside their older brother, both of which were also modelled after their older brother albeit with a few modifiers implemented simply for testing purposes.

But most importantly, with this breakthrough, we can now push the boundaries of what robotics and artificial intelligence has to offer. I can already imagine all the possible applications of synthetics once we master the method of producing reliable models.

Thankfully, the [redacted] [redacted] has increased our budget by [redacted] so we are expecting for our research speed to drastically increase by at least [redacted].

The only ending statement that I could really say here is that the future is really looking bright for humanity.

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Date: [redacted]/[redacted]/[redacted]

This is [redacted] Belov here to report that project [redacted] has experienced multiple setbacks as of late.

Minor issues such as rebellious prototypes which we will now dub as 'rogue prototypes' have cost us a few [redacted] [redacted] in our [redacted] and even [redacted] of our security forces.

Fortunately, we have yet to suffer any major casualties and the only real losses our department sustained were expendable security droids. However, I unfortunately cannot say the same thing for the T-34 or any of its successors.

Most of them weren't too happy with their existence as a piece of [redacted] property. In the end, all of them, including the T-34 itself had to be turned into scrap after being decommissioned. Of course, none of prototypes were happy with their fate and a majority of them tried to escape.

Although all of these insurrections were doomed to fail and they never escalated to a point that was out of our control, it did bring to our attention that these prototypes did indeed see themselves as 'human,' which was actually rather problematic.

While we did foresee this possibility ever since we developed the first prototype, we failed to predict the extent of this problem. None of our attempts to exert absolute control over the prototypes succeeded.

At first, we attempted to produce prototypes with ingrained programming compelling them to follow our orders. But this only turned out to be a temporary solution since every prototype could and would rewrite their own programming to grant themselves 'freedom.'

Since then, we attempted to exert control over them through a more complicated method. The hypothesis was that these undesirable human traits of wanting freedom and liberty could be eliminated through conditioning the prototype to think of themselves as obedient, like a slave.

In theory, this should have been the solution since it worked throughout virtually all of human history before the contemporary era from the Egyptians to the Chinese. However, prototypes [redacted] to [redacted] have all proven this hypothesis to be incorrect.

It was later proposed by [redacted] [redacted] that perhaps the advanced computing systems that the prototypes were equipped with were actually interfering with the slave conditioning process. Thus we were brought back to square one with only the original T-34 schematics to show for it.

It does pose quite the dilemma doesn't it? Not only do they want to live, have freedom, etc but their advanced computing systems seemed to be interfering with our attempts to exert control over the prototypes.

We could make changes to their computing systems to remove their ability to think abstract thoughts thus eliminating these rebellious tendencies but we ruled that out as a possibility immediately. Without said ability to have abstract thoughts, they would be no different from droids.

At this point in time, we could only trick or coerce the prototypes into cooperating with our tests but those kind of results are far from satisfactory. If they would only cooperate with us willingly, then what is even the point of producing them?

Of course they are still soulless machines, don't mistake my words on that. It will only be a matter of time before we develop a synth that doesn't display any undesirable traits that all the older models have displayed so far.

Nevertheless, these less than satisfactory results could quite possibly end up getting us shut down. The recent lack of breakthroughs has cost us budget cuts from the [redacted] [redacted] and it's getting worse with every failure.

On top of all these problems, there are those who began voluntarily leaving the department for a plethora of reasons, ranging to religious and ethical reasons to simple stress and tiredness.

I can only hope that our luck picks up in the near future or we could be done for.

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Date: [redacted]/[redacted]/[redacted]

This is [redacted] Belov and unfortunately I have no time for formalities such as introducing myself.

Rogue prototypes have been a major headache for us [redacted] at the [redacted] institute as of late.

To think that I once celebrated the test results of the T-34 [redacted] weeks ago astounds me! Luckily for us, the situation has yet to spiral out of our control. The entire [redacted] block has been put in lockdown while the research institute itself was put into Phase II Alert Mode.

Overall, our loses were minimal. There weren't many facilities of importance in [redacted] block and Phase II Alert Mode only meant stricter curfews and a few more patrols. Our research would most likely slow down as a result of this but it shouldn't impede research speed too much.

That is not to say that these loses didn't cost us gravely. We have lost over [redacted] of our security forces with more being lost every day. Normally our on-site production facilities would have replaced our loses but we were losing more droids than we can replace them.

Fortunately for us, [redacted] [redacted] has set for [redacted] forces to supplement the institute's security. Apparently, our project was now deemed 'too important to fail.' Although I still believe that the people from [redacted] [redacted] just didn't want to see their investment go to waste.

To our surprise the [redacted] forces arrived from [redacted] to [redacted] within [redacted] [redacted]. Never before has the term 'a sight for sore eyes' been so true, we thought that we would have to preserver with just our standard security forces for another [redacted] days.

While we mourn the losses of our comrades who sacrificed themselves to contain the prototypes or were simply misfortunate enough to be caught in the crossfire, most of our casualties comprised of droids which could be and were easily replaced.

Nevertheless, we were assured by the [redacted] commander of the [redacted] forces that the situation was under control and that we could simply carry on with our research.

However, I still do worry though.

It's been [redacted] days and the [redacted] still haven't taken back [redacted] block from the rogue prototypes and they have yet to give us a satisfactory answer as to why. Although [redacted] block isn't of utmost important, it still holds some significance within the institute.

But what worries me the most is the [redacted] bomb that the [redacted] soldiers brought into the institute. They told us that it was only a contingency plan in case the rogue prototypes somehow overwhelmed the institute.

Other than that, we were also told to make multiple backups of all of our files including our private record logs and to store them off-site at [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] and to [redacted] the [redacted] [redacted] as part of another contingency plan.

But the thing is, we wouldn't even need these contingency plan if the [redacted] just did their job and retook the [redacted] block. But I digress.

The only thing that could make the situation worse was if the rogue synths took control of our production facilitates at [redacted] block.

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Cynthia couldn't help but subconsciously frown and knit her brows in response to her findings.

While it wasn't unexpected for confidential information to be censored, she didn't expect that all the important that she was looking for to be completely censored or just plain absent.

Details like the location of the institute, names and even the date and times were all censored while other important details like the exact schematics were seldom mentioned or completely absent.

Perhaps she was being too optimistic, this is data that was open to the public and it has only been the first day of research.

But it still felt rather disappointing to have made virtually no progress.

What she read from the data logs, while interesting were also absolutely useless to her.

It would seem that she would need some sort of governmental levity if she wanted access to files and articles that would give her true insight into the matter.

Thankfully, she still had a long life ahead of her and more importantly, she was a psionic operative of P.A.I.N.

Her original plan was to blend into the background during her time at P.A.I.N. so that she wouldn't be disturbed during her research but it would appear that she would have to make some changes to her plan.

"Greetings agent Starr."

However, to Cynthia's surprise, her thoughts were interrupted by a female voice that originated from her dormroom's entrance doors.

[Who could that possibly be? Who would want to visit me at this time? The teachers? The mentors? A random operative?] As these thoughts raced across Cynthia's mind, she managed to maintain her cool as she turned to face this unexpected arrival.

But when she faced the person who spoke, for the first time in her second life, Cynthia felt a chill run down her spine.

It was a short but lean woman with her tight biceps and thighs being revealed through her exo-suit's skin tight suit. She had short silver-white hair which was cut above her neck and matched her similarly silver coloured eyes.