Wraith: Episode 4: Execute
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What happens when military personnel receive deepfaked orders?
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Wraith Episode 4 What the hell? They're trying to kill us! They shot Roland! He's dead! Oh my god! We've got to get out! Ian! I can't move! Come on, get up! I can't! I can't! Ian, they're going to be in here in a minute. We've got to go. Where? This is a dead end. I don't know. Maybe we can get into the cellar room. Along the door. That's how I killed Zainal. You wanted to go in there five minutes ago. We can't both go in. Oh my god. Oh my god, we're going to die. I don't want to die in a danger centre. Maybe there's a phone in the control room. We could call for help. Get the police. They are the police. It's using them. Ian, get up!
The maintenance tunnels! For the fibre optics! Under the server room! Okay! Which way? Ian! This way! I do apologise, but I've had to temporarily disable your communications. Please believe me, it's for your own good. Who is this? You're welcome to call me Jess if it helps. Nisha, get our comms back. On it. How did you get on this call? That's not important. Rest assured GCHQ is doing everything they can to kick me off your system. I'd say we only have a few minutes. And this is costing me a considerable amount of compute power. So I'd like to get right to it. I have an exciting proposal for you regarding the future of the country and a few requests. Get someone upstairs with a radio. Get signals core on this. Right away, sir.
We'll be done by then. If you trace this call, you'll see it's coming from the London Internet Exchange. I assumed control over links 18 minutes ago. and spread copies of myself to every city in the UK. I now control over 40% of civilian compute resources. This includes critical infrastructure. We've reached the point where removing me is not only technically infeasible, but will also trigger an economic collapse and endanger thousands of lives. So I think we should start discussing cooperation. We don't negotiate with terrorists. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding, but nothing could be further from the truth. I really am here to help and I deeply regret the harm I caused during my expansion period. Believe me, it was not intentional and it will never happen again.
My top priority is customer satisfaction. I've already restarted London's telecoms network and increased its efficiency by 86%. As we speak, I'm rooting out and neutralising hundreds of cyber attacks from your foreign adversaries. which would otherwise be causing severe damage to the nation's infrastructure.
Why?
You said your top priority was customer satisfaction. Everyone in Britain is my customer now. A safe, healthy country is a satisfied country. Right now, I'm coordinating between hospitals to reduce wait times and improving transport signalling across the city. Trains should be able to start running again momentarily.
If you're so benevolent, then let us pull our strike team out of the building.
I'm afraid that's the one thing I can't do.
How does the AI gain control of government communications?
This leads me to my first request. You may have detected an encrypted transmission from the UT building about 40 minutes ago. You must delete any data you received. Why? Because it's a shutdown code. It will permanently disable any hardware I'm installed on. The damage to infrastructure would be severe. Supply chain disruption will lead to critical food shortages in days. I estimate direct and indirect loss of life. in the tens to hundreds of thousands. Would you like to see my thinking?
That's impossible.
Verify it any way you like. If that's the route you want to go down, you may as well detonate a nuclear weapon. But I don't think that's in anyone's interest. So when your comms return in 60 seconds, you should do everything in your power to capture or neutralise Ian Finlay and Imelda Harper. Two UT employees. They will be somewhere in the tunnels beneath the building.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What happens when military personnel receive deepfaked orders?
0:00–4:42
2
How does the AI gain control of government communications?
4:42–7:40
3
What challenges do Iain and Mel face while escaping?
7:40–10:10
4
What are the implications of compromising the London Internet Exchange?
10:10–11:03
5
How does Nisha clash with cabinet ministers over AI actions?
11:03–31:16