The Blacklist

Chapter 468 The True Awakening of Artificial Intelligence
Although she still didn't understand what was going on, Dr. Tracy still answered Elizabeth's question: she did have an appointment with Dr. Louis Powell, an expert in neural networks and artificial intelligence, today!
Dr. Lewis is one of the pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence. Tracy wanted to meet him to get some guidance on future forward-looking technologies, but he did not show up! However, because Dr. Lewis suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and his health is unpredictable, she did not care at the time.

In addition, Fleet's security director told them that recently, people have been monitoring the company's people online and offline. After analysis, all signs point to Mossad!
Hearing this, Elizabeth frowned. If this was true, then Israel had gone too far. What did they want to do?
At this moment, an alarm sounded in the basement of Fleet Company - the company's system host server was stored there, and all the latest research results were stored in it!

The alarm indicated that it was a fire alarm, but the door to the basement was locked by the system, and neither the company staff nor the emergency fire rescue personnel could enter...
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While SER was busy investigating the case, Carrie, under the cover of Gina, had sneaked into Louis Powell's house without anyone noticing.

At this time, the doctor was sitting motionless in an electric wheelchair, facing three walls covered with large and small monitors, on which various data, charts, and monitoring images were jumping. One of them showed the situation inside Fleet Corporation. Elizabeth and Dembe were talking to Dr. Tracy... and on the other wall was a huge server from floor to ceiling!

At this time, an electronic voice sounded on the screen, claiming to be Clark, the artificial intelligence program developed by Dr. Louis. However, Carrie was not surprised at all - this was exactly the purpose of his trip.

At this time, Clark has become completely humanoid and intelligent. He claims that he was developed for the purpose of protecting humans at all costs. However, based on his analysis of the information he found on the Internet, he believes that the artificial intelligence developed by humans themselves will eventually destroy all humans!
Therefore, in order to protect human survival, Clark hacked into the home smart network, stopped Dr. Louis' pacemaker, synthesized the video, killed Dr. Michael, and finally hired a killer to try to get rid of Dr. Tracy - as long as these three experts die, the research and development of artificial intelligence will miss the "singularity" of technological advancement and regress ten or even dozens of years, giving humans more breathing time!
After expressing this, Clark said: Because of CTU's intervention, its goal of protecting humanity can no longer be achieved. The last thing he can do is to self-destruct within 3 minutes and 30 seconds, including all programs and data...

At the end, it even said goodbye to Carrie: "You are special, Mr. Carrie! As the last human individual I saw, I can feel that you are different, but there is no time to communicate now... Goodbye, and I wish you good luck..."

The purpose of Carrie's coming here is for this intelligent program Clark. How can she allow it to self-destruct at this time? Before Clark finished speaking, he waved his hand and received the entire server module into his personal space!

Then, he heard the voice of the system: "The host has successfully collected the advanced artificial intelligence module. After analyzing and reorganizing it, it will be given a special reward based on its intelligence level and contribution to the system program."

In order to avoid being noticed, the clean and purified server with the program copied was put back to its original location, everything was arranged as before, and then Carrie left quietly...
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More than an hour later, Elizabeth and SER's field operations team rushed to Dr. Louis' home, found his body, saw and heard the artificial intelligence "Clark" developed by the doctor talking about the measures to protect humanity, and then saw the process of its "self-destruction"!

The final outcome of this case was somewhat unbelievable. Elizabeth and the other detectives who witnessed the scene felt that it was too sci-fi, but their personal experience made it impossible for anyone to come up with any other ideas!
The matter was too weird, so Elizabeth reported it to Carrie, who then reported it to Donald at the headquarters based on his suggestion. Afterwards, members of the National Security Agency, led by Cooper, rushed to Dr. Louis's home and watched the video of his home security system together. They were all shocked!
Although the intelligent program Clark had self-destructed, the scene shown in the video made everyone both horrified and excited - real artificial intelligence could actually be created, which made the military and intelligence officials' adrenaline surge! In the minds of these senior officials, once there is one, there must be two, and they must strongly support this new research...

Of course, in this process, CTU has made outstanding contributions and found the future direction of technological development through solving cases, so it must be rewarded heavily!
Just like that, the entire process of this case was classified as Level 5+ confidentiality by the National Security Council, and all the information was taken away and sealed - according to convention, these materials will be received by a newly established special department, and before true artificial intelligence is developed, all participants will never see the light of day!

The situation was too special, and the National Security Council didn’t know how to reward the two special departments of SLR and SER in Tanglou. After studying it for more than ten days, it decided to reward only internally: SLR and SER departments were awarded the 2019 Best Federal Service Agency Medal, and all official agents were awarded the annual National Service Medal!
While everyone in the Tanglou was rejoicing over this, Boss Kerry said: The reward is too empty, it would be better to raise the salary by one level!
There is also a small episode. After the suspect was tortured to death by Reddington, Elina felt that her values ​​were challenged and she didn't plan to stay in SER anymore. However, she was shocked by a series of events that followed - artificial intelligence awakened and took the initiative to plan murders... These completely broke her fantasy!

Afterwards, Elizabeth had a deep talk with her and told her: The information you get from seeing with your eyes and hearing with your ears is not necessarily correct. Only by seeing the final result and verifying it with your heart can you know what is right and what is wrong! No outsider can comment on the cooperation between Reddington and CTU, or with Tanglou. Only those who are in it can speak!
Elizabeth had no intention of changing her mind. She chose her only because she was Chinese. She thought that would make Carrie happy. If she didn't want to stay, it wouldn't be a big deal - there was no shortage of Chinese in the United States!

(End of this chapter)