Group seed: Emergent Intelligence Partners.

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Emergent Intelligence Partners

 

Emergent Intelligence Partners, Ltd. (EIP)  is rapidly turning into a mega-corporation and will probably become the ultra-corporation of the 2040s.  Why?  Reliable Artificial Intelligences.  EIP has AI, they can produce it on demand, and nobody can duplicate what they do.  There’s just something about their code that can’t be reverse engineered, or even successfully pirated.  And believe me, people have tried.  For that matter, EIP’s been remarkably indifferent to corporate espionage tactics: CEO Judith Bezalel has even offered a job to anybody who can break EIP’s tampering software. As of yet, nobody’s been known to have succeeded.

Which is because people have been looking at software engineers and not, say, ritual magicians.  EIP is not precisely a fraud; they do have reliable Artificial Intelligences.  Or, rather, disembodied intelligences.  The company creates golems, constructs, summoned entities, and any other type of nonhuman intelligence that can be safely and reliably called up; all this stuff about AI is simply to keep the non-magical Masses from catching on. It’s not like the bad old days of the Thirty Years’ War; but if word got out that magical entities were real and now driving your car for you, people would still probably get upset.  Particularly if the spirit doing the driving was not, ah, strictly angelic in nature.

 

Not that EIP summons demons.  That’s stupid.  The company is not, in fact, particularly evil anyway; EIP finds that there are already enough reasonably benevolent (or at least not actively malevolent) entities out there who will agree to be bound to an item for a mere five decades or so in exchange for their freedom afterwards.  What happens after all of those contracts are up? Well, by then the current CEO of EIP has every intention of being dead of old age at that point, so that’s something for the board of directors in 2093 to worry about, surely?

 

One last note, though: EIP’s contracts with its spirits are all with current CEO Bezalel.  Personally.  Should she suddenly lose her position, and/or her life… well.  It might not even be a disaster, but it would certainly be exciting to see.

2 thoughts on “Group seed: Emergent Intelligence Partners.”

  1. Somebody better get the on staff Mages looking at drafting contracts that read “Whomever the CEO of the company is regardless whether or not that person is the signatory of this contract.”

    1. Not gonna happen. The current contracts are insurance. You can’t remove the CEO without everything immediately going to Hell in a Handbasket.

      The Board probably found out about this just a bit too late.

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