ASK AIDA - EXPO
You opt to go home. While you walk back the way you came, another car comes hurtling towards you, before plowing into the sidewalk and becoming embedded inside the front window of a laundromat. Confident that it’s safe, you walk towards the car to see if the driver is alright. You notice that there’s no driver at all!
That’s it. Time to call the police. You pull out your phone and dial, but it goes straight through to an automated voice:
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - AI TEST ACTIVE. EXPECT SERVICE DISRUPTIONS. DEFENSE IS NOW TARGETING THREATS ACROSS ALL CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE TO KEEP HUMANITY SAFE. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.
Your phone cuts out. This is too weird. You start running and make it back to your front door. You lock yourself inside and start searching. Lots of citizens are reporting similar things. Something has gone wrong, and all systems hosted in Australia have been compromised. It appears that an experimental AI has been switched on before it was ready, with the intelligence then hacking into local networks, taking over all technology.
You quickly devise that your phone is exempt, as you use a VPN full time and are therefore undetected. However, your other electronics are all vulnerable and absolute chaos is unfolding. It’s decision time:
That’s it. Time to call the police. You pull out your phone and dial, but it goes straight through to an automated voice:
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - AI TEST ACTIVE. EXPECT SERVICE DISRUPTIONS. DEFENSE IS NOW TARGETING THREATS ACROSS ALL CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE TO KEEP HUMANITY SAFE. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.
Your phone cuts out. This is too weird. You start running and make it back to your front door. You lock yourself inside and start searching. Lots of citizens are reporting similar things. Something has gone wrong, and all systems hosted in Australia have been compromised. It appears that an experimental AI has been switched on before it was ready, with the intelligence then hacking into local networks, taking over all technology.
You quickly devise that your phone is exempt, as you use a VPN full time and are therefore undetected. However, your other electronics are all vulnerable and absolute chaos is unfolding. It’s decision time: