Wizard: Become stronger by drawing cards from the potions variety show

Chapter 831 The Difference Between Humans and AI

The main AI excels at collecting data.

Upon first encountering the Wizarding World civilization, the main AI attempted to gather information about the Wizarding World through various channels across the multiverse.

The news we received was not optimistic.

The wizarding world is a powerful, cunning, and ambitious civilization that reveres conquest and plunder.

Civilizations that deal with them often meet only two fates: destruction or submission.

Neither of these options is a good outcome for the main AI, so conflict is inevitable.

At least in its estimates, the probability of war eventually breaking out is 99.9%.

Therefore, the main AI made ample preparations from the very beginning, with all monitoring and defense facilities set to maximum capacity, and a large-scale mobilization of the Iron Legion to encircle and annihilate the wizards.

Based on data exchanged with other worlds, the Wizarding World will quickly learn and become familiar with the rules of the current world and deduce corresponding countermeasures.

The Wizarding World will quickly resolve the stalemate at its root, thereby acquiring a deadly weapon against our civilization.

Therefore, to avoid this situation, it is necessary to forcefully compress their space from the very beginning and reduce their numbers as much as possible. This is the most effective means of confrontation known to the longest-lasting civilizations.

Of course, another method is to relocate the entire clan. If they can find the protection of other advanced civilizations, they can temporarily avoid the invasion of the wizard civilization.

The main AI does not intend to make this choice. It would simply mean shifting from being dependent on the wizarding world to being dependent on another entity, and it would still be unable to escape the fate of becoming a vassal.

This is a war for the survival of a culture. Either the war will catalyze an explosion of civilization and technology, saving the fate of one's own civilization, or one will be conquered by the other side in the confrontation, becoming a prisoner of the other's culture.

Therefore, the main AI went all out from the beginning, conducting thorough battle recaps. They listed all the possible scenarios, preparing to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.

He would not underestimate the vanguard forces of the wizarding world and was determined to achieve a decisive victory in one battle. Even though these vanguard forces were very troublesome at the moment, he was determined to gather his strength and repel them, and not give them any chance to develop.

In response to the current situation, the main AI listed a total of 13 targeted policies and plans, and all social forces tilted towards war, initiating an emergency state of war preparedness.

These policies and plans are being pushed forward at each level.

But at this moment, the emergency combat readiness procedures proposed by the main AI were suddenly put on hold.

The Human Federation in the core authority zone voted against the latest emergency war plan.

The percentage of votes against reached 31%.
The main AI is unable to use its emergency decision-making authority to complete the proposal.

At the same time, the Human Federation requested a reconvening for the war resolution.

As the manager and maintainer of the human world, the main AI also has to get involved.

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The virtual space projected by the main AI.

In the core area of ​​the main AI, which is the starting point for all instructions, and also the interactive area where humans have a high degree of participation and control over the main AI.

The Human Alliance holds the authority to adjudicate against the main AI program. When necessary, they can ensure that the decisions they make are in the best interests of humanity and do not go astray. This is the significance of their existence.

Today, everyone is gathered together, every member is present, and there are even many semi-retired councilors, achieving a rare level of full participation.

The only difference is that, normally, everyone on the committee is quite old, but this time nearly one-third of them have regained their youthful appearance.

These revitalized members of parliament, the men handsome and the women beautiful, either held their heads high or observed with indifference, their expressions varied, but their projections were all in their seats, waiting for the meeting to begin.

In the middle of the projection hall, an irregular polygon suddenly appeared, and then the avatar of the main AI appeared in the center of the projection.

At this significant human representative meeting, before the main AI could even speak, a member of parliament directly submitted a meeting request.

"I request to demonstrate the main AI's thought process during this meeting in order to verify whether the other party is biased towards its own advantageous thinking while disregarding human safety."

"agree."

“I completely agree.”

Supplementary minutes from the meeting consistently showed a 97% approval rate.

During this meeting, the main AI's thought process will be publicly revealed.

Then, a display screen with a special color appeared in front of everyone.

A long roadmap of the main AI's thought process is displayed on it, and also shown to everyone.

"Fellow members of parliament, my current war plan is the only one that has the potential to preserve our world civilization, based on countless simulations."

The main AI reiterated its position in a gentle voice, while simultaneously projecting the corresponding detailed data onto the screen in front of itself, as well as on the screens in front of each member of parliament.

"These are the worlds that the Wizarding World has encountered or connected with so far. There are 7 large worlds, 30 medium-sized worlds, and countless small worlds, but the number is definitely no less than 200. This is not all the data on other worlds that the Wizarding World has come into contact with; it is only limited to the part that I have been able to collect."

All the members present at the meeting were looking through the documents.

The data sources are very detailed, with a complete record of the source of each piece of information, as well as subsequent verification processes.

The main AI continued in a gentle voice, "Our current level of civilization is intermediate."

"Everyone can check the corresponding numbers."

"Currently, there are only five large civilizations that still maintain diplomatic relations and exchanges with the Wizarding World and remain independent. The remaining medium and small civilizations have either completely disappeared into the multiverse or have been integrated into the Wizarding World, becoming vassals, with their own culture, traditions, customs, and even rules all being integrated into the bottom layer of the Wizarding World."

This is also the main basis for the main AI's judgment that civilization is currently facing a crisis.

Regardless of what the wizarding civilization claims to the outside world, and no matter how friendly their words or expressions may be, the data does not lie.

The current survival rate of small and medium-sized civilizations is 0, which is a stark threat—a threat to the very existence of civilizations.

The main AI spent a great deal of resources and time just verifying this data. It believed that as long as this data was presented to everyone, they would be able to see what was really going on. However, unexpectedly, a human representative said at this moment: "The data presented by the main AI is very detailed, which proves that resisting the other side by force is completely unnecessary and absolutely wrong."

“If we anger the other side, then we will become another denominator in this remaining culture.”

"Now that the other side is willing to establish diplomatic relations with us, this is an opportunity for us."

“War only wastes our resources, adds extra hardship to our people, and causes casualties, while trade allows our two worlds to share resources.”

As soon as he finished speaking, some of the representatives present nodded to each other, while others looked surprised and whispered among themselves.

The representative who stood up was very young, but in fact he was a 100-year-old man. At the last meeting, he looked very old and frail, but now he was upright and elegant, and most importantly, he had a handsome face.

This is his face when he was young.

This activist knew very well that if he voted to push through the deal, he would have a chance to survive.

He is now in the world's top circles and has become one of the world's de facto controllers, but so what?
Without a miracle, he has at most seven years left to live before turning into a pile of bones, either dying naturally or uploading his consciousness to the network to coexist with his mechanical body.

But at that time he would be subject to AI, so all human voting options would be stripped away, and his current power and money would gradually drift away from him.

He had seen far too many scenes like this, and the flow of seats in this hall was based on this.

Even his own seat was obtained in this way.

Those who step down from this position will find over time that living without power is nothing but painful torture, and that their past experiences and methods are like bullets aimed at their own brow.

However, these bullets will only be turned around and dealt with one by one after they lose their human identity.

He heard the cries of many people and personally created many hells. Many people said that it would be better to die in the first place than to live like this, and many people cursed him, saying that he would become a member of this cycle sooner or later.

But now, everything is different.

If he has this vote and can push for diplomatic relations with the wizarding world, his lifespan can instantly increase dozens of times.

100 years old is just a fraction of what's in the wizarding world.

Moreover, as long as he holds onto power, even if the AI ​​world merges into the wizarding world in the future, he can still establish his leading advantage and guarantee his status.

A long life, an eternal power.

Making a choice is not difficult.

Thinking this, he looked around at everyone and said loudly, "We are not afraid of power, we dare to fight, but we cannot let our fists fill our minds. If the other party is using what we call friendly hands, we cannot assume that they want to bully us and strike first."

"The other side might attack us after we throw a punch, but does that mean they had malicious intent from the start?"

The main AI recorded his words and immediately realized that this person was very likely to have come with a pre-existing bias.

After reviewing the data I provided, the user representative was not impressed by the results. He completely ignored the meaning of the data and failed to understand that the other party's current overtures were most likely a ploy to lull us into a false sense of security and buy us time to develop our strength.

[I must make them realize that their current overtures are essentially purposeful and part of their intrusion. I also noticed significant abnormalities in the user representatives' physiological states; I must thoroughly re-examine the data of the representatives present to determine if they might be under the control of the wizards.]

In that instant, a large number of monitoring programs and data graphs were mobilized to search for clues.

Soon, the main AI discovered that many of the members present had had close contact in a very short period of time, and that the members who had been in contact with them had all experienced significant physiological changes.

Their biological age is becoming younger.

However, apart from evidence of their contact, no other unusual changes were found.

The members of parliament present remained unmoved, their expressions relaxed.

Because they knew very well that all their secret transactions were conducted by humans, deliberately bypassing the main AI's oversight. All transactions were conducted behind the scenes, but within the rules.

One of the councilors spoke up, saying, "Master AI, you are too stubborn. Over-reliance on data will cause you to lose your judgment of new situations and environments. Not every matter has historical answers to follow."

He chuckled and produced his evidence: "Your judgment is based on data, but if your data collection is incomplete, then your judgment will be meaningless."

“I can tell you that this time our opponent is not a war wizard in the traditional sense. He is a businessman who was forced to come to war by the Wizarding Association of the Wizarding World. If the battle starts, it will consume his own strength, and he will be in a difficult situation there. We will also be drawn into the quagmire of war. Our welfare and security will decline, and our lives may be threatened.”

“That’s right. In your eyes, we are just a string of data. We will keep regenerating. But in fact, each of us is an individual with thoughts and our own life. We will not be like your sub-AI, which will be resurrected on another machine after death.”

"Both we and the other side have better options than war."

At this point, he slammed his hand on the table and said in a low voice, "War is not child's play. We do not welcome, nor will we actively promote, war."

His words were so compelling that they prompted others to reflect.

The evidence he presented was also presented to every member of parliament present.

An elderly councilor lowered his eyes and asked, "Is the source of the data reliable?"

The congressman who presented the evidence smiled and said, "Of course it's credible. I sent my men to follow him with our surveillance system and record everything. What he said is true. He is indeed a businessman and the administrator of a large city. He has an excellent production line that supplies countless goods, which are exactly what we urgently need."

He emphasized the words that he urgently needed.

The elderly councilors immediately knew what he was talking about.

For people, time is the only thing they lack; they have long since reached the pinnacle of power.

At the start of the meeting, when he saw that his old friends had regained their youthful appearance, it wasn't just superficial skin rejuvenation, but a true return to youth.

Everyone felt a moment of envy and jealousy, but they also knew very well that this was probably a public showdown.

The elderly senator said softly, "Indeed, we can prepare, but we should not be the first to start a war."

This statement has garnered widespread approval.

(End of this chapter)