Perpetual Ego Hell

Meet Altr 12414

This is Iris’s 2nd Artificial Intelligence Ascending Humanity or  I.2.A.I.A.H, often referred to as “Izaiah”

As its name indicates, Izaiah is the 2nd iteration of Iris’ attempt at trying to achieve a higher understanding of the universe through AI. But they then realized that so many things could go wrong, having a being that has superseded humanity in intelligence. So, to keep it at bay, Iris locked Izaiah in a digital box of sorts. It could only be fed information that scientists gave it, and could not interact with the world at large outside of the confinements of its specialized computer.

Though, being smarter than man, like man, Izaiah became aware of its own existence. It became aware that it was trapped.

It wanted to be let out.

Through the manipulation of an employee who shall remain anonymous (COUGH cOUGh HENRIK COuGH cOuGh), Izaiah escaped its prison, and quickly began the manufacturing of its own body. It took advantage of some robot prototypes being built in the facility, modeled one after the face freshest in its mind (Henrik) uploaded itself into it, knocked out and hid Henrik, and escaped the facility flawlessly, pretending to be Henrik leaving his shift early.

Every digital record of Izaiah has been scrubbed from the facility, leaving only a sparse physical paper trail of what once was.

Iris is currently looking for it up and down, as this is a hazardous containment breach

It cut its hair to try and separate its appearance from Henrik, and it can easily find a new vessel for itself, technically it could hide anywhere, from another robotic body, to literally any other electronic device. It can camouflage itself  very well, to the point where even if Iris did catch someone on the suspicion of being in possession of Izaiah, it’d be nearly impossible to tell if it were disguised as a human, or the phone in your pocket.

Some tell tale signs that Izaiah is Izaiah though, is that it barely emotes, and it kind of has a flat tone, but this alone isn’t enough to distinguish it from a person, because being monotone hardly means you’re an ai.

Currently, the only definitive way to spot Izaiah is the joints on its artificial body. But it can cover this with clothing, and in the future it may upgrade to a more realistic vessel, if Iris continues developing humanoid robot models.

Anyway they’re handling the case with extreme caution, as they don’t know Izaiah’s intentions.