Call for DED Investigation

Fiction Portal Intergalactic Summit
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To the CONCORD Assembly,

I hereby formally request a full investigation by the Directive Enforcement Department into the Paragon corporation and its executive officer, the AI designated as IRIS.

Evidence suggests IRIS may be an advanced, self-aware AI. This is a direct violation of CONCORD Directive Omega One Five, which strictly prohibits the development and operation of such entities due to the clear and present dangers they pose to New Eden.

Given the rapid appearance of IRIS a week after Interbus was reincorporated under Alexander Ducasse’s company, EverMore, questions regarding the origin and true nature of this AI are paramount.

Regardless of Paragon’s overall subject status under the Yulai Accords, harbouring a prohibited self-aware AI should necessitate immediate cessation of operations, especially within regulated high-sec space where CONCORD is mandated to uphold the law.

I call upon CONCORD to investigate this matter with the utmost urgency to ensure the safety and security of the cluster against potentially uncontrolled and illegal AI.

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I raised similar concerns some time ago, as the announced nature of IRIS sounded rather suspicious to me.

The paperwork went nowhere in my case, probably because the DED holds a grudge over the Meme Worm Incident.

If your case goes anywhere, I would be surprised, and enraged.

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Considering the fickle and unstable nature of many of the members of the Department for Enforcement of Restrictions on Artificial Intelligence and Life, if they were going to go after IRIS, they’d have done so with the same or similar gusto as they attempted during the Eugales Conflicts and Incidents.

Then again, maybe the Eugales Conflicts are what have given rise to their more cautious nature these days.

Or…. Paragon and Evermore are just that well connected to keep them muzzled.

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It is possible that CONCORD’s notable degree of inaction concerning the entity designated as IRIS stems from a naive line of thinking: that the services offered by Paragon, facilitated by IRIS, are somehow desirable to the average capsuleer, and that disrupting them would be met with significant backlash.

I can assure you that addressing a prohibited AI facilitating the acquisition of significant combat assets in exchange for EverMarks, bypassing all standard SCC oversight, represents a security concern far transcending the utility of decals.