Of course, any Hard Sci-Fi work should have at least that much. What I’m worried about is the role we’ll play there… The vanguard of the new era, a ragtag bunch of pioneers whose work wasn’t very fruitful in itself but tore open the path for greater endeavors, a plain old dead branch in the tree of science evolution… or harbingers of DOOM?
From the book (technically from the GM-only section, but not really a spoiler for most campaigns):
The Singularity Foundation—formed at the dawn of the 21st century—was dedicated to the creation of safe articial intelligence software, while raising awareness of the benefits and dangers AIs represented. A fervent believer in the singularity doctrine that technology would move towards a single explosion of advancements that would forever reshape humanity, the Singularity Foundation was a strong advocate for creating friendly AIs that would help protect humanity from an uncontrolled, dangerous singularity event. This group was significant in that it secretly succeeded in creating a group of friendly seed AIs before the Fall. These Prometheans were indispensable in protecting transhumanity and countering the TITAN threat during the Fall.
(“Seed AI” is a term Eliezer coined, in case it isn’t already obvious that the writers have been reading the SIAI website.)
Actually, if I understand the setting right, the Earth itself ended up under the control of Unfriendly AI (the TITANs), so technically “the world” was not saved—although plenty of people were.
It also has SIAI (named “Singularity Foundation”) in the backstory.
Of course, any Hard Sci-Fi work should have at least that much. What I’m worried about is the role we’ll play there… The vanguard of the new era, a ragtag bunch of pioneers whose work wasn’t very fruitful in itself but tore open the path for greater endeavors, a plain old dead branch in the tree of science evolution… or harbingers of DOOM?
From the book (technically from the GM-only section, but not really a spoiler for most campaigns):
(“Seed AI” is a term Eliezer coined, in case it isn’t already obvious that the writers have been reading the SIAI website.)
LOL we did end up saving the world!
Actually, if I understand the setting right, the Earth itself ended up under the control of Unfriendly AI (the TITANs), so technically “the world” was not saved—although plenty of people were.