Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Everyone realized that the world was starting to descend into chaos.

After Singapore announced the successful birth of a child, it immediately began to amend its laws, changing the definition of death.

The same applies to the United States. Although the inheritance principles vary from state to state, all fifty states and the District of Columbia use the Uniform Death Determination Act.

There are two criteria for determination: first, irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions; second, irreversible cessation of all brain functions, including the brainstem. Meeting either one is sufficient for a legal declaration of death.

Three days after the birth of Singapore's first publicly acknowledged newborn, the Hawaii State Legislature passed a new bill in the morning, declaring that eligible newborns with wet brains, even if their brains have ceased functioning and their respiratory function has stopped, are not considered dead in the legal sense.

In the afternoon, the state Senate also passed it smoothly.

That evening, witnessed by dozens of media outlets, the newly elected governor of Hawaii, Katharine, former vice president of operations at Aurora Group, signed the new bill.

Inside the venue, Aurora Group CEO Alan Mulally announced that the Aurora Wanderer will launch simultaneously in Singapore, South Korea, and Hawaii on Thanksgiving Day, a month later. The price is only $6600, with an additional $100 per month for consumables to keep the wet kit hydrated.

These prices are quite shocking. Experts generally believed that even if the wet parts in the Wanderer did not require targeted cultivation and were relatively inexpensive, considering the research and development costs of the technology and its unique characteristics, the price should be at least $30,000 to $50,000.

After the bill was signed, Catherine boarded a plane directly to Lanai Island.

Although she became governor, she wasn't planning to live in Honolulu, since she had settled down on Lanai Island, where Emily was waiting for her.

Catherine was terrified that her home would be raided, since Chen Yiran was on the island.

Sure enough, when she returned to the island, she ran into Chen Yiran, who was walking this way, right at her doorstep.

"Boss! What are you doing at my house while I'm not home?!"

"I didn't come here to see you! I knew you'd be going home, so I came. I'm off, I have a meeting."

Catherine looked unconvinced. Why not just send a message while in the meeting? Besides, Chen Yiran was acting suspiciously earlier. Who knows if he would have gone over to try and seduce Emily if she hadn't come back?

As the development of Aurora becomes more and more exaggerated, Chen Yiran's image becomes more and more imposing, and Catherine is now a little insecure, feeling that Emily may not be able to resist the temptation.

Inside the meeting room, Chen Yiran looked at Catherine and Amit with considerable embarrassment. He hadn't actually intended to have a meeting, and now he didn't know what to say.

Seeing the awkward silence, Amit, the lackey, quickly struck up a conversation: "Catherine, how does it feel to be governor? You're so powerful now."

Catherine scoffed, "Good my foot! You're just following the boss's orders. You're really something. We were going to have you as governor, and you've been praising him while you've stayed on Lanai Island enjoying yourself."

Amit said apologetically, "Well, the child is sick, so I have to take care of him."

Catherine curled her lip: "Your son has an exoskeleton, he can jump higher than you! What do you need to take care of! Tell me what the meeting is about, is it because we're having financial problems? I told you the price of the Wanderers is too cheap, and you're converting half of our salaries into Aurora Coins, will we run out of money later?"

Chen Yiran waved his hand dismissively: "Don't worry, the person who delivered the money will be back soon. Um, what I meant by holding this meeting was that everyone should prepare for social unrest and legislative disputes in various states of the United States in the coming period."

Catherine was shocked: "No way, we're making people live forever! Those old money, those big capitalists, those old politicians, wouldn't they all be eager to pass it for us?"

"Or you might not be able to finish medical school; you're not smart enough. Just you wait and see, there are three forces that don't want the legislation to pass."

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In the days that followed, members of state legislatures across the United States initiated legislative amendments to change the legal definition of death.

To the surprise of many, the new bill, which seemed to have a lot of capital backing, did not pass smoothly.

In most states, after passing the House of Representatives, the bill is blocked in the Senate, failing to secure a majority of votes.

What's strange this time is that the opponents haven't expressed any opinions or made any proposals in the media. They've been very restrained, but they just don't want the bill to pass now.

In New Jersey, after yet another bill failed to pass, a legislator squinted and picked up the phone.

At that moment, at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Johnson & Johnson's current CEO, Alex Gorsky, was angrily berating his subordinates.

"What do you mean 'died for no reason'?! He was perfectly fine yesterday! And today he's gone? Didn't you say it wasn't a big deal?!"

No one dared to speak in the meeting room. Johnson & Johnson had invested heavily recently, but had not achieved much success.

"Speak up! You've taken so much of our funding, and it's been six months! What have you accomplished? Have I ever failed to give you what you asked for?"

The project leader said softly, "Objectively speaking, this kind of breakthrough cannot be achieved in just six months."

Alex Gorsky glared at him and said, "Chen Yiran made it on that tiny, run-down island of Lanai! A tiny island! What reason do you have to say it can't be made?!"

The team leader was somewhat exasperated. Alex wasn't a scientist by training; he was a West Point graduate and an Army officer. He started at Janssen Pharmaceuticals and worked his way up to become the chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, the world's largest healthcare company.

He has always run the company like a military, emphasizing discipline and efficiency. He completely ignores any talk of scientific barriers, always believing that any defeat is due to a lack of discipline.

The team leader thought for a moment and began to shift the blame: "Boss, it's not our problem. From a biological point of view, what we made should be no different from the aurora."

However, we are completely outmatched by them in terms of chips. Another key factor is the translation framework between the wet component and the chip, which should be the crucial element.

The current situation is that our wet components are obviously useful, but because of the translation and the fact that silicon-based chips are not as good as Aurora, we have seen phenomena such as users suddenly splitting into 7 consciousnesses, suddenly collapsing and dying, suddenly burning out due to inexplicable power consumption, and suddenly degrading completely.

What I mean is, if Google won't work either, why don't we go to Aurora? We can buy their chips and translators, connect them to our wet components, and it should be fine.

This isn't about shifting blame. In fact, based on the wet component data released by Aurora, most biologists believe that the technological complexity isn't as exaggerated as some might think.

The main breakthrough lies in the connection and translation with silicon-based chips, which allows memory-like components to be fixed in place.

However, this link translation is something that other companies basically have no idea how to do.

Six months ago, when Aurora began collecting neurons around the world for experiments, it attracted the attention of many established companies. Johnson & Johnson also began to increase its investment in the field at that time, after Aurora held a press conference.

Johnson & Johnson was immediately excited and mobilized all of the company's resources to tackle the technology.

One hand cannot clap. In order to speed up the process and keep up with the aurora, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, and Boston Scientific, three giants with assets of hundreds of billions of dollars, have joined forces.

At first, everyone was very confident. Although their own company wasn't very good, the other two might have some special technological reserves. It couldn't be that all three companies were so incompetent and had no reserves, allowing Aurora to overtake them on a straight road.

After the three companies established a joint project team, everyone was disappointed.

Several companies are involved in the production of implantable electrodes, pulse generators, and long-term biocompatible encapsulation.

At best, it can treat Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. It's nowhere near as advanced as Aurora's technology.

They then approached sensory giants and acquired Cochlear, a global leader in cochlear implants, but still made no breakthroughs.

Later, they changed their mindset. Aurora could only succeed as a chip company, so they also needed to find chipmakers!

Alex Gorsky happens to be not only the CEO of Johnson & Johnson, but also a newly appointed director of IBM.

IBM created the first human brain simulator back in 1956, which was already simulating neurons at that time!

Coincidentally, IBM recently launched the new TrueNorth neuromorphic chip, featuring a new framework with 4096 synaptic cores, each containing 256 neurons and 256 synapses, enabling in-memory computing and asynchronous event-driven computing, breaking the von Neumann bottleneck.

Although these neurons are all silicon transistor-simulated neurons, they look somewhat similar.

Because the aurora was moving so fast, he could use his status as the "local tyrant" of Hawaii to conduct various experiments.

Johnson & Johnson also took that step. They provided the money and equipment, had the hospital apply for permission, and after setting up a layer of isolation, they started human trials directly.

They thought that if Aurora, a company that works on chips, could develop one by hiring a bunch of biologists, then they, as biologists, should be able to develop one by hiring some chip engineers as well.

Maybe it's actually quite simple; it's just that no one has done it before.

The result was disastrous; IBM was almost completely unable to use it. They then urgently contacted Google and used Google's AI framework for research and development, but it still didn't work.

In just six months, out of fifteen researchers, the longest they lasted was only 48 hours before they died.

Half an hour later, the roaring in the meeting room finally subsided as the group of researchers left to continue their frantic work in the lab.

In fact, the researchers were used to it. Whenever an experiment didn't go well, they would be called in to endure a half-hour of harsh criticism.

Alex remained in the conference room and answered the phone: "Hello, Congressman Joseph, how is the situation?"

Joseph's voice was low and somber: "It's getting out of control. Today's vote count isn't what we expected. I estimate the state House of Representatives will pass it next week, and it'll just drag on in the Senate. How much longer do you need?"

"Us? We might need another ten to twenty years."

"................"

"I'm not kidding. Although my subordinates may not want to say it, I've been in this industry for so long, it's not like I'm completely clueless. It's something that might take me ten or twenty years to master."

"Should we continue to oppose it?"

"Of course, it's not that there's no chance of stopping it for one or two decades; some people are even more anxious than us. But you should be prepared, don't make any promises you can't keep, and leave yourself a way out."

"A collaboration with Aurora?"

"Sigh, if nothing else works, we'll have to try and see if we can collaborate with Aurora."

After hanging up the phone, Alex took out his phone and opened Twitter, intending to secretly observe Chen Yiran. Then he saw a news item trending on the headlines.

Internal strife broke out in the Redstone family. With the help of his girlfriend Hesel, Sumner Redstone escaped from his villa and went to the police station to report the incident.

Sumner Redstone alleges that his daughter, Sally Redstone, along with his 30-year friend Doman and another girlfriend, restricted his personal freedom and prevented him from experiencing the aurora borealis and attempting to become a newborn.

Alex sneered: "Heh, immortality is certainly a good thing for the old man. But for his successor, it's a curse. Chen Yiran is still too young. He released the technology without making any preparations first. Now he wants to pass the bill. How can it be possible without a bunch of people dying?"