[ WP ] Everyone on earth has a networked A.I . that will give them small suggestions on what actions they can take to benefit humanity . For some reason , no matter what you do , yours tells you to `` Just stay home today . ''

The words scroll across my wrist, offering up the daily incremental adjustments that supposedly help advance society. Some people seem to be destined for greatness. My friend Joe has followed his adjustments and grown into one of the foremost cancer researchers on the planet, respected by the people and funded by seemingly everyone. My cousin was prompted who to meet at just the right time. Almost everyday she would meet someone significant and form a network of relationships which led to her becoming the first female mayor of what used to be known as London. She's coming up for re-election, and is practically a shoe in at this point. 
 
 I sigh as I read the words scrolling across my wrist. I've never seen a tangible benefit for humanity in my actions. I remember the excitement when my wrist lit up with the name of my first girlfriend. I remember the confusion when both of our wrists lit up on the same day and told us to break up. That barely happens anymore, why would it when the AI knows what's best and can suggest solutions that fix everything? Especially when it advises both people... My prompts have led to situations where I've crashed my car, skidding on black ice, to offending people and making them cry. I've questioned the prompts, and wanted to ignore them. It's hard to explain what it feels like to be the only screw up in a sanctified community, an evolving world. 
 
 Once I woke up and glanced at my wrist to see the words `` Trust me''. 
 
 It was exciting, unusual. But then it simply reminded me to get some food from the store. 
 
 Since then, though, I've trusted the daily prompts - no matter how inane or counter-intuitive it's seemed. ( And by counter-intuitive, I mean stupid and outright wrong - how on earth does going for a hike through the mountains to watch the stars help humanity? I was lucky not to die of hypothermia that time. ) 
 
 Today's words: `` Just stay home''. 
 
 This has been happening more lately. At first it was great. Permission to not go to work? Heck yeah! Getting fired from work? Not so grand. The more it has told me to stay at home, the more I've done. I've redecorated; twice. I've watched all of the simunarratives that appeal to me. I've cleaned and tidied. I've withdrawn from the social consciousness gatherings. Overlapping experiences with another through the neural interfaces is one of the most amazing things I've ever done. But when you're a screw up like me... it's uncomfortable to see just ho wonderful everyone else's lives are and, i sense, it's uncomfortable for them to experience my disappointments. I overlapped with Joe once, he quietly told me afterwards that he did n't understand what good I was doing before muttering something about guessing we should trust the AI. A couple of days later and he'd made a break through in development of a humanized monoclonal antibody directed against some protein in brain cancer. I felt oddly proud of him, at least he was making the world a better place. 
 
 Just stay at home. 
 
 Okay, I'll stay at home then. Let's do something different. Let's find that old-tech library. With one last glance down at that message scrolling on my wrist, I click in the box and start writing for r/writingprompts
