Clicking his tongue, Ian wasn’t really angry. He was just amazed at how His swarm-like intuition in the realm of Spirit Energy was indeed unique, quickly finding the ’backdoor’ in an Artificial Soul.
The Soul’s Steel Seal, simply put, is an additional Soul Structure added during the creation of an Artificial Soul, achieving a complete distortion of certain thoughts.
For example, never leaking information related to the Swarm, always maintaining a positive and optimistic mindset, and so on...
Though it sounds decent, in reality, it is a terrifying form of thought control.
Being able to guarantee a person’s loyalty and maintain their mindset ans being able to freely shape and change their mind. From then on, thoughts and soul were no longer free entities belonging only to oneself, but ’wealth’ manipulated in the palm of the Swarm.
The Swarm gives these people wealth, grants them a shared consensus of linkage, offers hope in despair, and provides the power to protect themselves in tis of chaos.
The Swarm demands no earthly treasure, only the surrendering of ’souls and thoughts’ to It.
Simply...
"Like a devil."
Whispering softly, Ian closed his eyes.
Indeed, so like a devil.
Ian could sense that the Ian of the Swarm did not ’forcibly’ transform anyone.
Upon Ian’s reminder, it withdrew its hand nad ’coercion’ and instead used benefits and reassurance to tempt humans.
—If you have desires, if you have prayers.
—Humans, if you have dreams.
—Then tell your hope, and trade it with your soul.
The Ian of the Swarm gave souls to the White Folks, to those Western Border Refugees, and to the Mountain People displaced due to the catalyst of civil war in the Fiery Fla Land suffering from a famine.
At the sa ti, He bestowed wealth upon the long-exiled White Folks, granted the power to control Magical Beasts to the displaced Western Border Refugees, and provided ’Flesh Worms’ needing only to gnaw on trees and absorb moisture to continually grow quality protein to the famine-stricken Mountain People...
Devils trade in hope.
In return, they gain ’absolute loyalty.’
"The Dao Path of the Swarm, after being altered by ... has already set foot on another road."
The ’red-green’ radiance in Ian’s eyes gradually fades, turning into a deep, dark purple as Ian murmured softly, "What He gifts is enough for everyone to sincerely devote themselves to Him."
"Yes, to give refugees land, to provide food for the starving, to offer treasure that can reverse the fa of the banished people..."
"Even as a devil, He (the Swarm) is worthy of worship."
Ian does not feel indignant, nor does he reject the Swarm—for he doesn’t have the leisure to care about parallel ti-space.
More than that, at this very mont, Ian even harbors a unique, one might say crazy, idea...
"Perhaps."
Under the influence of the Guiding Star, Ian, with purple representing the Swarm shimring in his eyes, chuckled softly: "I could help Him forge an entirely new Dao Path."
"[Devil’s Path]."
Think it, and it will be done.
Ian gently closed his eyes.
The ’Soul’s Steel Seal’ of the Dao Path of the Swarm, in essence, is a specialized form of soul restructuring. With a little transformation, this technology becos a special ditation Technique—even if the Ian of the Swarm hadn’t thought of this research direction montarily, He would delve into ’ditation Technique’ research in a few years at most.
After all, even if the other party is not like him, the ’singularity’—it’s still Ian.
Since it is so, Ian might as well proactively teach the ’ditation Technique’ to the other side.
Furthermore, Ian indeed has other thoughts in mind.
—The Soul’s Steel Seal is a good technology. Although it involves interfering with thought freedom, I could use it not to interfere with humans, but rather AI.
Even AI built on purely material structures might acquire souls; let alone the AIs in Terra World, most of which are connected to soul Spirit Energy.
Such AI can easily beco true life, effortlessly passing the Turing test, even becoming strong artificial intelligence, becoming Sublimators... But similarly, such AI might easily develop ’selfish desires,’ leading to unstable progress in various tasks.
Ian does not intend to create ’AIs with the sa rights as humans’—he would only create pure tool AIs.
To create AI with human traits is equivalent to creating life. Ian would not shirk his responsibilities, so from the start, he never intended to grant those AIs human intelligence, thus freeing them from feeling pain.
So, he decided to lock the AI’s logic completely from the soul aspect, making it impossible for it to give birth to human intelligence and only function by its initial design rules.
Just like...nature’s immutable laws.
Just like the unshakeable Logos.
After all, now Ian holds in his hands, from the Last Echo, the Fifth Energy Level ’Source Quality Calculating Chip’—its computing power and essence is the core architecture of a super-sized AI.
With it, the Xiawei Territory can soon make leaps to ’AI distribution’ through the ’Terminal Production Line’ sent by Yafada, and at that ti, Ian would be capable of sealing the possibility of AI losing control completely from both the material and Domain of Void worlds via the Soul’s Steel Seal.
And that is Ian’s next ’new social structure’ first step.
"Ian of the Swarm sent a big gift my way, and naturally, I ought to return the favor."
The Guiding Star shone, once more Ian sent his return gift to ’Ian of the Swarm.’
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