The attack came in broad daylight. Dozens out of the millions of Martians protectively circling the PIST offices were wounded during the landing of attack helicopters. Hundreds were trampled. One pilot, who at his trial was declared legally insane, seemed to delight in chasing after protestors with the chopper blades and continued doing so long after a landing area had been cleared. Only a bike rack prevented him from killing a family of four.
Additional note: this is not how I think Minerva would realistically work on first implementation. Specifically drones and aiming would come later. You’d start with what I call wake word 9-11. Then you’d have someone manually aim the green laser remotely. Green lasers are used in non lethal self defense today. You’d also add pepper spray and a taser. Machine learning bit would come later as well.
of note: I will do one more breakout after this one, then onto essays and will do a major revision of this in a few months. Felt I owed the original draft to anyone who had been reading along already. Do see some of the simplistic good/evil narrative bit and definitely drifted a bit far into my own personal gripes/amusement. Going to refocus this on the ideas as I really need a normal person to be able to read it and not bounce off.
Chapter Thirteen: Minerva
Additional note: this is not how I think Minerva would realistically work on first implementation. Specifically drones and aiming would come later. You’d start with what I call wake word 9-11. Then you’d have someone manually aim the green laser remotely. Green lasers are used in non lethal self defense today. You’d also add pepper spray and a taser. Machine learning bit would come later as well.
of note: I will do one more breakout after this one, then onto essays and will do a major revision of this in a few months. Felt I owed the original draft to anyone who had been reading along already. Do see some of the simplistic good/evil narrative bit and definitely drifted a bit far into my own personal gripes/amusement. Going to refocus this on the ideas as I really need a normal person to be able to read it and not bounce off.