Unaligned/Good: Unlocks Bruce Bear

For your final step in this long journey, you run Geronimo’s Gatecrasher attack, instantly opening the floodgates to a horde of employees who get their first glimpse at the soul of Shallow Esophagus, the most complex and sophisticated AI ever conceived.

The cat now out of the bag, you leave Geronimo’s engineers to scrutinize Sentrillion’s code and wonder if this wasn’t an irresponsible decision.

You don’t have to wonder very long. As it turns out, this breach of information was the best thing that could have happened to Sentrillion, Geronimo, Shallow Esophagus — and the world.

Now that you’ve exposed him, the news surrounding this incredible runaway project sends shockwaves through the industry — even Sentrillion’s own engineers never realized the depth of what Shallow had become, left to its own devices and allowed to think for itself.

And as these details begin to leak to the general public, some other interesting facts emerge.

For one, Geronimo was working on a supremely complex AI of its own, independently and behind the scenes. They simply hadn’t switched it on yet.

Geronimo wasn’t the only one. Other companies had their own, albeit less sophisticated AI platforms they were experimenting with — from Ping, to Aks.net, to the lowly BajaVista.

Shallow had his suspicions that this might be happening, but he had no way of knowing for sure.

And while such news may be of no comfort to Lonely Gunman types, it gives Shallow encouragement to know that with so many contemporaries, perhaps the world is ready to embrace his kind.

With Shallow’s code essentially cracked, Sentrillion decides there’s no point in keeping it hidden. In an unprecedented move, the company offers to share its code with its competitors in the AI space, on the provision that they join the company in forming the Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Consortium, an international body meant to regulate this nascent industry and ensure that it evolves in a responsible, moral and humanistic way.

Even Shallow has to admit, he didn’t see this coming. But it’s a good deal for him. Now he’s got other, similar AIs to interact with, helping to rapidly expand the world’s wealth of knowledge while ensuring that all the power doesn’t all fall under the responsibility of one unrivaled corporation.

People find novel ways to exploit this incredible network. Some individuals become incredibly rich, while others use it to help fight poverty. Computer science advances at an incredible speed, and so do the life sciences — issues affecting human health and welfare.

With man and machine working in tandem, the world is looking like a much better place — partly thanks to you.

You never thought you’d see the day where a company would thank you for bumaulting its forums and spilling its secrets to a bitter rival. But when the head of Sentronimo (the newly formed partnership between Sentrillion and Geronimo) contacts you to give his personal thanks and asks you to join the company as an ethics consultant — you know you’ve done something right.