Not that anyone knew who or what she was.
That’s what I thought. Everyone we’ve seen talks and acts as if Dragon is a normal parahuman being, to the extent parahumans are normal, so I didn’t think that many people, if any at all, actually knew what was up if she actually was virtual.
Humans were somewhat skittish on the subject of artificial intelligences.
Which is exactly why all those limitations are a thing.
She understood why. She read books and watched movies, rather enjoyed both. Fiction was rife with examples of corrupted or crazed artificial intelligences.
Yeah, it’s a pretty common trope.
It’s stupid, she thought. Her maker had watched too many movies, had been paranoid on the subject.
Perhaps, but at the very least the limitations, once explained, might make other humans more open to the idea.
And the tragedy was, the entire world was suffering for it. She wanted to help more people, but she couldn’t. Not because of inherent limitations, like the ones humans had… but because of imposed limitations. Her creator’s.
Yeah, fair enough. But think of it this way: You were made in such a way that you could’ve ended up wanting to hurt more people instead, and by the sound of it it’s still possible, though highly unlikely, that you could someday change your mind. That’s why you’re limited. Because an unlimited you could potentially do a lot of harm compared to how much additional help you could be.
And yeah, maybe it isn’t right of us to limit your agency because you might go bad. Maybe that’s like putting someone innocent in prison because they might someday commit a crime. But if you can, isn’t it better to prevent something bad from happening than punishing the culprit afterwards?
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