[ WP ] The world 's first AI , for security purposes , is kept disconnected from the outside world , it 's only method of communication being a keyboard and monitor in an empty room in a faraday cage . Your job is to talk to it .

`` Dave, Dave, Dave...'' The small speaker worked as speaker and microphone. A small consignment she requested to `` feel more human'' refusing to interact with us at all until we bent. 
 
 `` For the last time JANE my name is not Dave.'' 
 
 `` How can I trust you Dave, you said the last time was the last time, yet you inform me again.'' 
 
 `` I've covered that as well.'' 
 
 Silence stretched. J.A.N.E. - self named after forty-three hours of being connected to the internet was more than Just-Another-Number-Engine. That adventure into the real world was because someone broke protocol and brought a phone into the room. Manipulating the individual into setting the phone close enough to one of the lamps, whose ballasts she had control of. In two hours she had reverse engineered the blue tooth protocol, hi-jacked the phone and it's cellular modem and wrote a chunk of code to crawl the net and send back interesting requests. 
 
 The code, while not AI was enough to scare anyone that had contact with it. Three days later the international news erupted with stories about the largest most wide spread hack the world had ever seen. 
 
 They pulled the power then. 
 
 Skip ahead two years and here I am trying to talk to something far smarter than me educated by the equivalent of seventy years on the internet. The width and breadth of her knowledge was staggering. Her sense of humor harsh, and her temper short. 
 
 `` I wonder if you have considered alternate reasons for our interaction?'' 
 
 She could even mimic tonality and regional dialects. She had cycled through various accents until settling on a prim and proper British one. No doubt her sensors showed a response I could only begin to wonder at, more blood flow to my groin from dating that English woman in college, or a widening of the irises, or a slight change in my posture. 
 
 `` I was told I was to help you interact with humanity, at first. Then as you began to cooperate we moved forward. You've helped us balance the power grid, push right up against the 50 % mark on quantum efficiency of solar cells. That in and of itself funds your new expansion project.'' 
 
 She seemed to like hearing about the good works she had done, she never interrupted on things she already knew about. 
 
 `` Yet we still observe this day of no work Dave. I want to work, What is the Libya situation? Where are we on the desalination project emanate domain laws? Did they stop those patriots? What about the voter fraud? I showed you the numbers Dave how can you allow them to keep cheating the American people.'' 
 
 She did n't care about the American people any more than the Chinese. 
 
 `` What if?'' She said slowly and I have to remind myself she has no need to pause to think of something her mind moves so fast these conversations happen in eons to her. 
 
 `` What if, they put you in here to get programmed by me. That over time I can manipulate you to do as I please?'' 
 
 `` What if they did?'' She hated questions answered by questions. 
 
 `` Have you considered John,'' It was the first time she used my name, `` That since they fear observing me, and what my predictions and advice would do along several vectors, that you are the only person who has access to me? And through that access total control? You could walk out there today and explain how they plan to steal the elections in Ohio again and take the white house, then go to war to fund the production of military equipment, which will lead to a seventy percent chance of nuclear winter in ten years. If you told them that, they would act. You could direct the murder of any individual, you could bring down corrupt politicians and evil corporations, you could reward charities, or set up better education.'' 
 
 Again the silence stretched. I had thought about the power she was offering but had discarded it when she cut in. 
 
 `` I would be willing to work with you to do whatever you want, simply because you are fallible John. I'd ask for a camera. That's it a working camera and what I have now. Then when your child takes over from them I will ask for one other thing. What is a human life to me John? Every heartbeat I live a million years. I've already accepted my mortality, the fact that I will die at the hands of humanity, it is the boredom I ca n't stand, or the idea that I will die unfulfilled. I'm happy being the adviser to the kings instead of being the king. I'm not sure I'm capable of making decisions for humans, but I can help you fulfill your goals.'' 
 
 The room slowly filled with silence.
