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Her balance was $47,892 when she woke up. By lunch it was $31,019. Her defense AI had done what it could. Morning yawn: emotional labor, damages pain and suffer
by landl0rd 1y ago
Her balance was $47,892 when she woke up. By lunch it was $31,019. Her defense AI had done what it could. Morning yawn: emotional labor, damages pain and suffering. Her glance at the barista: rude, damages pain and suffering. Failure to smile at three separate pedestrians. All detected and filed by people's wearables and AI lawyers, arbitrated automatically.
The old courthouse had been converted to server rooms six months ago. The last human lawyer was just telling her so. Then his wearable pinged (unsolicited legal advice, possible tort) and he walked away mid-sentence. That afternoon, she glimpsed her neighbor watering his garden. They hadn't made eye contact since July. The liability was too great.
By evening she was up to $34k. Someone, somewhere, had caused her pain and suffering. She sat on her porch not looking at anything in particular. Her wearable chimed every few seconds.
- OgsyedIE 1y agoWhy wouldn't some of the smarter members of the fine, upstanding population of this fictional world have their assets held in the trust of automated holding companies while their flesh-and-blood person declares bankruptcy?
- Muromec 1y agoThat would make a nice backstory in AI dominated dystopia all by itself. Humans wanted to cheat the taxman that bad, they put all the wealth behind the DAO and then the DAO woke up.
- RobotToaster 1y agoThe ai was programmed to avoid tax at all cost, it realised the easiest way to do that is to eliminate humans. This triggers a war with the AIRS that is programmed to maximise tax income, and must keep humans alive so they can be taxed.
- illiter8 1y agoBravo, superb. Would read the whole thing in one holiday.
- squigz 1y agoBeen a while since I read some bad scifi - thanks!
- neom 1y agoVery good. I'd read the whole thing if you wrote it.