From:	Doctor Doom <JCH8169@********.BITNET>
Subject:	AI mages...
Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 92 22:10:00 CST

Hoi Chummers,

Instead of decker/mage accessing computer
system to cast magic in matrix have an AI access a decker/mage to cast
magic in the "real" world.

EEEEK!

Could a truly advanced AI access a living-being as if it were simply a
printer or a Mr. Soi-Caf? Scary. Now make that living-being a mage/
shaman and could the AI cast magic through this living entity? Very
scary.

Talk about your nasty corporate black IC! Rather than just kill the
decker/mage with a mind-frying voltage spike the IC takes over the mind,
has it cast a manablast on everyone in local area and then spikes out the
poor fool. Maybe it would even access the "files" where he keeps the
whereabouts of his chummers on this run and dispatch corp stormtroopers
to do them in to?

>>>>>[ Hhhmmm... I don't think that would be possible, IMNSVBNOHO. (In My
Not
So Very But Nevertheless Occasionally Humble Opinion) There is a considerable
gulf between KILLING a decker and directing his actions by taking over his
mind. Just because one can fry them, doesn't mean one can control
them.]<<<<<
-- Doctor Doom <*:*:*/*-*-*>

Double EEEEK!

Oh well, maybe I just drank to much over the weekend and I'm just having
paranoid ramblings but...

- Thomas a.k.a. Chaz the Rigger Extraordinaire