Story Idea

[packbat]

1. True AI is fairly new - perhaps as new as the Internet is now.
2. At some point early on, it has been established that AIs are legal persons.
3. An AI breaks the law in a way that would normally confer the death penalty.
4. Its sentence: to be reprogrammed - not killed - so that it will not do it again.

The story follows the hacker or hackers employed to do the job.

Comments

Re: Speculation...

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Actually, now that I think of it, it need not be a death penalty offense. What of a simple felony, like mail fraud or something? Hmm...