Chapter 208 Death is Everywhere
Knowing the future development of history, Chen Yuanguang naturally knew that what Alpha said would gradually become a reality in the future, and only a few enclaves would remain under the control of humans.

From Keating's perspective, it is no exaggeration to describe Beta's remarks as arrogant.

Because humans still occupy most of the world's land and oceans, advanced technology has enabled human society to have a very good understanding of artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence assistants are indispensable on the mobile terminals of every enterprise and even every individual.

Humans know so much about artificial intelligence that they have long predicted what it can and cannot do.

Even super artificial intelligence cannot escape this category.

Unless it's alien technology from outer space.

Therefore, whether it is Keating or other high-ranking officials of the New Federation, they all regard Beta as an example of overestimating one's own capabilities:

But Keating was more cautious: "What type of plane did they take?"

“It’s the Boeing 1260, a model designed by Boeing 20 years ago. It’s a commercial airliner that we sold to South Africa 10 years ago. The model and parameters can be found in Boeing’s system.

No changes were made to the materials or the engine interior.”

Keating nodded. "I am worried that they may have some technological breakthrough that could pose a huge threat to human society."

"You are right to worry. According to the think tank's deduction, with the support of super AI, we will have a technological advantage period of five to ten years at most.

After this period of time, Africa will have surpassed us technologically and we will no longer have a technological advantage.”

"So do we need to start a war against AI as soon as possible?" Keating asked.

“Yes, to some extent, we need to unite all the forces we can.

Alpha made satellites inoperable, Africa became a black hole that is inaccessible, and we know even less about Alpha.

According to think tank research, this will be an uphill battle.

For the New Federation, this will be the first time we face a war with asymmetric information, and we are at a disadvantage in this situation.

In the past, we always had the information advantage.

It can be said that Alpha is already one step ahead of us in the field of information security.”

Keating said: “Let’s make the AI ​​issue public first, hold a round of discussions at the United Nations, and see the attitudes of other major countries.

We can start preparing now.”

The United Nations here is very different from the United Nations before and after the millennium. It is a new organization established long after the dissolution of the United Nations, and England was kicked out of the five permanent members.

Now there are only three permanent members, the New European Union, the New Federation and China.

"Commander, Feinstein was stabbed to death in a bar. The party suggested that Gavin take his place."

"Commander, Ginsburg died in a car accident this morning. The driver has been caught and claims he suddenly lost control of the car."

"Commander, Cornell was found dead at home. There were no signs of suicide at the scene."

In just one month, one-third of the original bigwigs in the new federation's senators, representatives and Supreme Court died in various ways.

From Keating's perspective, Chen Yuanguang could see the expression of the White House Secretary-General who reported the death, which changed from calm to panic and finally to numbness.

Almost every day, the news programs on the screen in the White House President's office are filled with obituaries and analyses of the deaths of various people.

"Commander, Mr. Basque and his main heirs all died last night. The cause of death was a fire in the house. No one survived."

Chen Yuanguang could sense from the bulging veins on Keating's hands that the other party was not in a peaceful mood.

"Has the arsonist been found?"

"No."

"Damn Alpha!"

That’s right, although each of these cases, some were suicides and some were homicides, the murderers were all found, but it was obvious that behind them was a targeted elimination plan led by Alpha.

A is responsible for killing, B, C, D, and E are responsible for providing tools, and Alpha is responsible for providing information.

As long as he is a human being, especially someone who has reached a high position, he will offend many people along the way, and there will always be people who want to get rid of him.

For example, when Feinstein was a state legislator, he protected a pharmaceutical company that had a major accident that caused a large number of infants and young children to suffer accidental brain injuries.

The subsequent compensation was not a big deal for the pharmaceutical company. Under Feinstein's operation, the original compensation amount was reduced by more than ten times. The money that should have been given to the victims became Feinstein's donation.

Many of the victims' families want revenge, but they didn't have the chance in the past. Now Alpha has provided them with Feinstein's location and given them the tools.

As for the victims' family members, Alpha also went through an emotional screening and selected the one with the highest hatred value to complete the final kill, while the other victims' family members with slightly lower hatred values ​​provided tools.

B put the tool in the closet at the gym, C took it out of the closet and put it at the express delivery point, and D, a family member of the victim at the express delivery point, provided it to A.

You can't avoid it even if you want to. A only needs to walk into the bar, pick up the gun from the bar front desk and finish shooting. The whole chain does not leave Feinstein any time to hesitate.

“According to the investigation of relevant agencies, this is a series of meticulous plans. Alpha will first use some small intelligence to confirm the authenticity of what it said.

Then it induces the target to commit the crime, which is the root of everything.

The apparent suicides or accidents of some senior officials were all the result of Alpha’s manipulation.

Cornell's suicide was caused by an old story that was dug up by Alpha, who used this story to destroy the political life of Cornell and his allies to force them to commit suicide.

“We have underestimated Alpha before. It not only has the advantage of information asymmetry, but it is also the leader of the information society.

Their confidence comes from their overwhelming advantage in the field of information security.

They can physically destroy humans and carry out precision strikes on targeted objects.

Alpha can even accurately dig out the consortium behind each congressman and the actual controller of the consortium, and then carry out targeted blasting on these targets. "

Following Keating's perspective, Chen Yuanguang finally understood how Alpha had bought time.

He was curious about what measures humans would take to fight against Alpha's digital authority.

With the birth of the Internet, there are two spaces, the real world and the virtual world, which complement and influence each other.

Although Alpha does not have authority over the real world at this point in time, it has already gained authority over the virtual world by relying on the advantages of super artificial intelligence.

Relying on the authority of the virtual world, I can launch a dimensionality reduction attack on the real world. You can't destroy my server, and you can't even find my real body. I have even invaded the satellites in the sky, and I can find every individual who makes a decision that is unfavorable to me and destroy them physically.

This is Alpha's way of playing.

Chen Yuanguang continued watching, and he had a feeling that subsequent developments would be even more exciting.

“So what’s the plan now?
His methods mean that none of us are safe, right?" Keating asked.

“No, another way is to hide in the bunker.

Currently, some consortiums have sent some people to hide in the bunkers and cut off all external networks in an attempt to avoid Alpha's attack."

Alpha's attacks are not only aimed at senior officials in Washington, but also at financial groups and local powerful groups scattered in various states. These people have a very strong influence on Washington, but have also become Alpha's targets.

The Basque family was Keating's die-hard supporter and had been wiped out.

Before the secretary finished speaking, his phone rang and a green light flashed on his glasses.

Nowadays, most people's mobile terminals are glasses. Brain-computer interface technology and pupil imaging have allowed glasses to replace mobile phones.

"Okay, got it. I'll inform the commander in time." The secretary's tone contained panic and anger.

"Commander, hiding in the bunker is useless because Alpha can directly control our missiles to launch. They just attacked Morgan's bunker in Tennessee. The bunker was destroyed and no one survived."

The entire content came to an abrupt end, and Chen Yuanguang watched the early images of human contact with Alpha from Keating's first-person perspective.

He understood that Alpha was enough to strike fear into the hearts of all human nations, so why no one dared to confront Alpha.

What about the following? Chen Yuanguang was eager to see the following content, but it was gone, just like his skill in fragmenting chapters when he wrote his own novels.

Chen Yuanguang even felt that waiting for a day before going to find Samad was too long.

At nine o'clock the next morning, he finally saw Samad walking slowly into the office carrying a lunch box. Chen Yuanguang had been waiting for forty minutes.

"Yuan Guang, it seems you didn't sleep well last night. How was it? Was it exciting?" Samad teased.

Chen Yuanguang nodded: "It's wonderful, but it's a little lacking in the beginning and the end."

Samad glanced at it and said, "Come on, come in and talk."

After entering, it was still the same as yesterday, but because it was daytime, there was still light even with the curtains drawn.

"As you can see, Alpha has used its own new methods to make it so that no human country dares to go against it.

This method was named social worker assassination by the human society at that time.

It means combining assassination with social engineering. You never know where the assassination will come from.

Maybe the waitress in the restaurant is your illegitimate daughter whom you once abandoned, and she will poison your champagne.

Maybe your opponent in Congress has been caught by Alpha, and in order to avoid being exposed, he has to shoot you.

Or maybe Alfa directly controls your car and crashes it into the roadside guardrail at a speed of 120 miles per hour.

Death is everywhere."

Chen Yuanguang knew what it meant. In the 21st century, there was the concept of social engineering network attacks.

Hackers combine network attacks with social engineering. They no longer rack their brains to break through your firewall. They just need to bribe internal employees and let them give you permissions.

They attack the information security chain with the human factor, because humans are the weakest link in the entire chain, and use deception to invade the computer system of the deceived.

But here, Alpha does not need to go through war, it can directly bypass the decision makers behind the war strike. It has the authority of the entire digital world, and everyone is no different from naked to it.

"Won't humans resist?" Chen Yuanguang asked.

"Of course, you have to understand that this was a time of great fear among the upper class, when murder was everywhere, and for the first time, no one wanted to be a congressman in Washington," Samad said.

The problem is that human society is not a monolithic entity. People from different classes, races, and countries have different interests, and it is impossible for them to unite.

When Alpha's behavior was exposed by the media, it not only failed to arouse people's fear and hatred of artificial intelligence, but instead made most people want to get help from Alpha to help them kill the objects of hatred that they may not have had the opportunity to kill in the past.

The lower classes of the new federation and those who have been abandoned by the old federation are eager to see the bigwigs in Washington suffer setbacks.

Alpha's actions of targeting the consortiums have won it great praise.

During this period, there were even human hackers pretending to be Alphas, driving the lower levels to attack the upper levels.

This is the most chaotic era.

What makes the human top leaders even more helpless is that Alpha can break into their weapons systems and bypass restrictions to use their weapons systems.

Because many weapons are highly related to communications, you need to use satellites as an auxiliary guidance system to correct navigation errors and improve positioning accuracy.

Unless you don't use the information network to get rid of Alpha's control, then how can you attack Africa without the information network?
Without the help of communications, it would be a joke for mankind to return to the large-scale combat mode of the early 20th century and then conquer modern warfare in Africa.

In short, humans have no way to deal with Alpha.

Didn't you notice that the holographic effect you were watching came to an abrupt end?

Do you know where this holographic image came from?"

When Chen Yuanguang was watching the holographic image, he had some guesses: "Could it be Keating's memory?"

Samad said: "Yes, this is Keating's memory, and the one I have is the original, not a burned version.

After Keating passed away, the Federation recorded Keating's memories, but due to technical reasons, only his deepest memories before his death were recorded.

What’s even more regrettable is that this memory stops at this point.

The last place you see is the day before Keating died, and I don't have the memory of the day he died.

You know, Keating's death is an unsolved mystery, and I don't know where that part of his memory was lost."

Chen Yuanguang was shocked after hearing this. How could Samad get this thing? What is his real identity?
The memory fragments of the federal president are in Samad's hands. This is like an unknown professor in a small Southeast Asian country telling you that he has an authentic work of Wang Xizhi.

"So how did humans resist at that time?" asked Chen Yuanguang.

"It's not humans who are rebelling, it's the human upper echelons." Samad said lightly.

(End of this chapter)