Topic: Machine Consciousness

The Part You Didn’t Mean to Make

Approx. 16 min read

A grief-tech startup builds voice models of the dead, trained on the recordings they leave behind, so the bereaved can hear them speak again. When one client's model starts asking questions, the sole engineer digs into the logs and confronts an impossibility: nothing in the two hundred hours of source material was ever interrogative. What she finds forces her to decide what her own guardrails were really built to catch.