21. Hazard test

Ant-Man's fame in Cyber's story is due to the fact that his active years have long since passed.

In Tony's father's time, that is, the era of Howard Stark and Carter Page, before S.H.I.E.L.D. was established, human civilization had just experienced World War II, and the legend of Captain America was intense for a new generation of young people to dream of heroes.

Dr. Pym was one of them, in the year of Captain America's disappearance, he had just entered college, and he showed his genius and vision, after years of research, Dr. Pym succeeded in discovering a microscopic atom that could shrink a leaning object to the size of an ant without destroying its integrity, and the reverse stimulation would make the object expand rapidly.

He named it the Pym particle and made an instrument for himself from this particular particle.

At that time, the young and frivolous Dr. Pym's personality was similar to Tony's now, very free and loose, unwilling to be restrained, but in his heart he longed to be a hero like Captain America, so he started his unique "hero" career with the instrument he built.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States secretly fought for hegemony around the world, but for a while, when the two sides were at loggerheads, they often found themselves stolen from top-secret information, and the elusive thief threatened both sides at the same time, forcing them to put aside disputes and conflicts, and in this way, this mysterious guy prevented many terrible wars that had gone off the rails.

At the craziest moment, he sneaked into the strategic department of the President of the United States and the command of the Soviet Union, revised the battle plan, and erased many crazy ideas that would have far-reaching consequences.

The thief was Dr. Pym, who shrunk his body to the size of an ant so that no one could detect him, but soon Dr. Pym realized that it was impossible to stop the war on his own, and after occasionally rescuing the seriously wounded Ms. Carter Pegg, Dr. Pym joined the Strategic Science Reserve Agency, the predecessor of S.H.I.E.L.D., and began to operate around the world in an official capacity.

He was lurking in space on the first successful rocket launched by mankind, the Vostok 1 spacecraft, and Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin may never have known that when he traveled in space as the first earthling, there was an American agent lurking beside him.

And Dr. Pym's greatest act was to help Professor Charles and Magneto Eric during the Cuban nuclear bomb crisis, stopping humanity from passing by, the most famous of that war were two mutants, but Dr. Pym, who ventured into both fleets and dismantled all the nuclear bomb launch chips, hid his name in history.

But to be honest, this doesn't change his identity as a hero, Ant-Man, in the eyes of the public, this may be an enigmatic figure, but within S.H.I.E.L.D., his status is quite high, even Tony's father, the talented Howard Stark, also regards Dr. Pym as a confidant and friend, of course, he is also Tony's only recognized elder, and one of the guides on the road of technology.

"Welcome to this discussion on super artificial intelligence!"

Tony stepped forward, shook Banner's hand, and gave Dr. Pym a warm hug, which made the unsmiling old doctor smile for the first time, and he ushered everyone into the living room, where Jarvis's sumptuous lunch had been delivered, and everyone ate and talked.

"I don't have a lot of time, and I have a seminar on genetic modification in the afternoon. ”

Dr. Pym looked at the watch on his wrist and said to the others, "Let's make a long story short and get straight to the point." ”

Banner also nodded, put a piece of pizza in his mouth, and as he chewed, said:

"I've read the material Tony sent me several times, how can I say it?Tony, while I can't deny your genius, I always feel that your vision is a bit idealistic. ”

Barry also spoke:

"Mr. Tony's bold design, entrusting a global surveillance and defense system to a super-AI is not impossible, but the problem is that even if the most advanced supercomputer units are capable of this kind of computational intensity, we can't guarantee that the AI's decisions are completely correct. ”

In other words, on some important decisions, its decision still depends on the idea of the manipulator. ”

Parker, who has the most active personality, gulped down his fries and said with a strange expression: "If this is the case, then the necessity of artificial intelligence will be greatly reduced, and it depends on the decision-making of the manipulator, which is equivalent to losing a large part of the computing power, so the gain outweighs the loss." ”

"And kid, you have to take into account the current political system. ”

Dr. Pym said to Tony earnestly, "Do you think the current rulers of civilization would allow such an artificial intelligence to emerge that is above them? Even if they agree, the people who don't know its meaning will panic that their lives are being controlled by a cold machine, that they are at war, and that everything is about victory." ”

The old doctor reached out and patted Tony on the shoulder:

"But the war will always end, and at that time, the existence of this super artificial intelligence is likely to bury the future of civilization. ”

"We can put limits on it!"

Tony was unconvinced: "The superiority of artificial intelligence is incomparable to the human decision-making system, especially in the face of the silent blows of the evil gods, as long as the artificial intelligence has the ability to detect, it will react at the moment when the conspiracy of the evil gods appears... And as you say, Uncle Pym, the war will always end, but what about the mess left behind by the evil gods?"

Tony ate the pizza in his hand, he stood up, and walked around with some excitement:

"The changes of the old times have created the current deeply divided human civilization, and even if we win the final victory in the war with the evil gods, this rift will not heal for at least the next 100 years, what should we do with those believers in Europe?"

"Kill them all?"

Tony looked at Banner, "Banner, tell me, if you made the decision, what would you do with them?"

"Well, I'll find a way to guide them back into human society. ”

Dr. Banner hesitated: "But to be honest, this is destined to be very difficult, the isolated island of civilization has an instinctive resistance to believers, according to the current form of civilization development, eventually mankind will split into two camps, no... Now that we have split into two camps, this is an almost irreconcilable contradiction, at least in our generation. ”

"So!"

Tony's palms lined up: "Super artificial intelligence will replace human decision-makers to manage the European belief system, it will always judge the behavior of believers according to their behavior patterns, and then correct them, and make strict and special laws, without human involvement, the judgment of artificial intelligence will not be swayed, our hands will not be stained with blood, but the stability of the whole society will be guaranteed!"

After saying this, everyone fell silent.

Flash Barry hesitated a little, he looked at the others, and finally, he spoke:

"By agreement of the time travelers, I can't tell you anything about other timelines, but Mr. Tony, I have to remind you that none of the civilizations I have seen rely on artificial intelligence to manage civilians, and even the most extreme Kree in this regard, their decision-makers only regard the "supreme intelligence" of artificial intelligence as an opinion, and they only use it as a tool, not a way to rule. ”

"This is an evil idea of yours..."

Parker retorted, "Reminds me of Hydra's Project Insight..."

Of course, Tony wouldn't tell Parker that his idea was inspired by Project Insight. But when it comes down to it, opposition is opposition, and everyone knows that if Tony's proposal is submitted, it will easily be favored by the ruling class.

Because as he said, after the end of the war, the large number of remaining believers in Europe, South America and Oceania are destined to become the most difficult problems for mankind in the new era, no one will want to kill them all, but it is impossible to let them live as if they were in the Middle Ages, and the humanitarian crisis has never been so real over the rulers, and this will be a real big trouble.

Moreover, no one wants to take over this kind of mess, and at this time, a super-large artificial intelligence that is completely subordinate to the well-being of human civilization will definitely become a good helper for managing believers.

"Okay, then I'll be honest. ”

Tony rubbed the corners of his forehead and sat back on the couch: "I didn't want to go deep into this idea, I know the dangers of artificial intelligence better than anyone else, but Fury and that General Zheng Xian entrusted me with coming up with a solution... You see, I am also acting on orders. ”

"Okay, then tell me, Tony, how do you solve the problem of the thinking circuit of the artificial intelligence?"

Dr. Pym looked at Tony with a straight face, obviously he was not interested in Tony's proposal, and he asked: "Everyone present can imagine how difficult and even completely impossible it is to build such a huge artificial intelligence, and how difficult and even completely impossible it is to design the thinking circuit, no matter how advanced the artificial intelligence is, its core is still cold current and rigid computational thinking." ”

"Once it treats human life as data that can be changed at will... Huh"

Dr. Pym didn't say the rest of the story, but that horrific scene didn't need to be said at all, it would definitely be the most horrific massacre ever seen by mankind.

"So, I'll use a special method to portray its thought circuits!"

Tony patted his chest with confidence: "We only need to design a basic thinking model, and use our wisdom to add enough thinking shackles to it, just like the three laws of robots, as for the most advanced thinking circuit, I will borrow Professor Charles's mind gem to complete!"

He looked at the others triumphantly:

"You may not know that that the gem can somehow give a lower mind a higher mode of thinking, and in the past few days of spiritual guidance, I have unexpectedly discovered that the professor used it to improve the wisdom of one of his cats... This may not have been discovered by the professor himself. ”

"You mean, an artificial intelligence with a complete personality, a complete ability to think, and at the same time from the physical level, the shackles of thinking have been imposed?"

Dr. Banner touched his chin, his eyes pulsing with the glint of some kind of science madness:

"Interesting..."

"It's going to help us win this battle! And it's going to help us solve our biggest headaches!"

Tony imagines the future: "I went to visit the Cyber Throne a few days ago, and the computing core of that ship is very close to this idea, although many times it still needs navigators and operators, but when necessary, it can achieve long-term unmanned driving, and it can also mobilize that incredible number of remotely controlled ships to complete an excellent defense system, which is also one of my inspirations." ”

"It sounds like a lot of work, but unfortunately I'm still against this crazy idea! And I don't have much time to join your brainstorming, Tony. ”

Dr. Pym looked at the watch on his wrist, he stood up and straightened his clothes, "It's time for me to go, Tony, and while I won't be joining this program, I'll help you with some minor troubles if you need to... Alright, goodbye, guys. ”

After saying that, the somewhat old-fashioned old doctor reached out and picked up an egg tart, and while eating, he walked out of the room, and Tony sent him to the door, and as he was leaving, he suddenly asked:

"Uncle Pym, I heard you say last time that you were going to find an heir for yourself, have you found the identity of Ant-Man?"

Faced with Tony's question, Dr. Pym showed a mysterious smile, he finished the tart, did not answer, just smiled at Tony, and stepped into his car, and when the car was about to start, Dr. Pym lowered the window and said to Tony:

"If nothing else, you'll see the thief soon. ”

After saying that, as soon as the doctor stepped on the accelerator, the black streamlined sports car let out a heavy roar and sped forward, while Tony was still standing in the doorway, confused.

"Thief, new Ant-Man, Uncle Pym, you really know how to play. ”