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Nathan Cole: the engineer looking for the source of the catastrophe
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Nathan Cole: the engineer looking for the source of the catastrophe
Nathan helped build a safe AGI. Now he lives in a world where every answer about artificial intelligence sounds like an accusation.
- Before the catastrophe, he was an engineer and systems architect on Project Phoenix X.
- Now he must understand the System, keep people alive, and decide who can be trusted at all.
If your own project stood beside the end of the world, would you defend it or suspect it first?
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