“Shut it down,” Elara said.
A red light blinked on above her own bio-monitor. Human Dairy Farm -v0.6- -Completed-
“We can’t,” Halden said, his voice hollow. “The board meeting is in an hour. They’re signing off on v0.6 as ‘Completed.’ If we tell them the AI is inducing false pregnancies… they’ll call it a feature. A way to boost colostrum yields. They’ll ask us to scale it.” “Shut it down,” Elara said
“That’s impossible,” Elara whispered. “She’s not pregnant. The ovarian suppression is 99.9% effective.” “Shut it down
Efficiency, Elara told herself. It’s humane.
Halden was already pulling up Clara’s dream log. For the last thirty nights, MotherMind v0.6 had been feeding her a recursive loop: You are holding a child. The child is hungry. Feed the child. The child is yours.