FICTION WRITING CONTEST
Badlands
Ai covers 99.99% of the land
We are racing across the desert heading towards Badlands. Every light on the dashboard of the car is flashing. The Ai voice keeps telling us, this is extremely dangerous, and we must stop and turn around. We need to keep going. It is not too much further. This is insane. Maybe we are wrong. Everything is confusing.
How did this start? Well, it started with the death of King Charles III. Cancer finally won the battle. His son was now king. Long live King William V. No, impact on any of us in America. What happened next? Nothing.
Well, nothing in the short term.
Ai continued to improve the quality of life across the planet. Over the last few years most of the bugs have been worked out in self-driving vehicles. Road accidents have fallen by 98.1% from previous years. In fact, any accident is becoming increasingly rare. Ai controls all transport, both private and commercial. Ai controls national infrastructures, water, electricity, oil, gas, nuclear and renewables. Ai monitors everything. We are now safer than any time in history. We are entering a new utopia.
But recently some weird accidents / deaths have begun. First they just involved random people. No one that you had ever heard of. Then some minor government and…
