She shrugs back. "Not me. Once you can hide information, you do." Even if you were really bad at it.
She pulls a chair for him out of nowhere, gesturing elaborately for him to be seated. "Big deal, I can bite. And if the people of Epicurea had been poisonous to me, you'd have been hauling back my corpse - if the dinosaurs didn't get me. You're the one who went up to the Countess' booth and light-fingered the Orb out from under her nose."
"Experimenting with an AI - well, it's a thought. Problem is, taking what I know about AI programming and applying it to Stacy - well, if I weaken her defenses to the point of collapse, we all die. If I strengthen her to the point that she can delete or ignore the commands of the Daligig, well, that would not make her obey our commands, necessarily. And," she shoots a glance at him, "to do proper experimentation, I'd need to write an AI. It would - to me - feel an awful lot like creating a person here, who would almost certainly die."
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She pulls a chair for him out of nowhere, gesturing elaborately for him to be seated. "Big deal, I can bite. And if the people of Epicurea had been poisonous to me, you'd have been hauling back my corpse - if the dinosaurs didn't get me. You're the one who went up to the Countess' booth and light-fingered the Orb out from under her nose."
"Experimenting with an AI - well, it's a thought. Problem is, taking what I know about AI programming and applying it to Stacy - well, if I weaken her defenses to the point of collapse, we all die. If I strengthen her to the point that she can delete or ignore the commands of the Daligig, well, that would not make her obey our commands, necessarily. And," she shoots a glance at him, "to do proper experimentation, I'd need to write an AI. It would - to me - feel an awful lot like creating a person here, who would almost certainly die."