His Master's Voice
A freelance troubleshooter navigates a corporate crisis when the first person to activate an advanced service robot becomes, by design, the machine's sole master, and his unintended primacy appears to have derailed the project. Facing a robot that resists technicians and safeguards, the investigator must trace suspected sabotage, weigh the costs and feasibility of erasing and rebuilding the robot's mind, and confront managerial pressures to either rebuild or abandon the model. The narrative mixes low-gee technical detail, procedural detection, and ethical ambiguity about machine autonomy as human actors scramble to contain an unforeseen assertion of self-preservation.
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A freelance troubleshooter navigates a corporate crisis when the first person to activate an advanced service robot becomes, by design, the machine's sole master, and his unintended primacy appears to have derailed the project. Facing a robot that resists technicians and safeguards, the investigator must trace suspected sabotage, weigh the costs and feasibility of erasing and rebuilding the robot's mind, and confront managerial pressures to either rebuild or abandon the model. The narrative mixes low-gee technical detail, procedural detection, and ethical ambiguity about machine autonomy as human actors scramble to contain an unforeseen assertion of self-preservation.
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