• Kaiden

    The avalanche of witnesses against Tenzin continues. I sure hope Aegis has some really good arguments planned.

    • Honza Prchal

      Jane’s about to testify. I sense an own goal coming for the prosecution. The defense may not need to present a case.

      • Adriano

        who cares about a machine’s opinion? It may as well been encoded by Tenzin!!!

  • Ian Brown

    oh for the love of. i wonder how much these people got paid for this?!

    • Well, actually, none of them is lying…

      • And I’m being very one sided, and not showing how they respond to cross examination by the defense XD

        • Biased journalism!! the cancer of out times survived the apocalypse

          • Heh, the makers of the Panopticon would agree with your assessment of Minervan politics and journalism XD

          • Honza Prchal

            Society may change, but human nature doesn’t change (except very slowly through evolutionary pressures).

  • Delta-v

    Threatening Jane? Something tells me hizzhonor doesn’t know what he’s dealing with. ^^

    And that’s a prime example of her “stubborn” pose. :)

    • T.R.

      i dunno, that facial expression looks more wistful/concerned than stubborn to me. I expect the prosecutor, judge, and regents get the stubborn look. (reaction save with -3 penalty, or they spill their water :) )

      Hmmmm… Just noticing the hair bun. (not sure why I missed it in the earlier pages) I thought of her as more bad-ass with the slicked-back hair short cut. (yeah, yeah, she can present herself however she wants/thinks will help Tenzin’s case)

  • DeNitro

    We all have read stories or seen the movies, where a dominant power has corruption, be it crime, political, military, or corporate. Then some hero(s) are forced to go beyond accepted methods, breaking rules, destroying things to change it. Doing exactly what we all know would get normal humans written out of existence, and at minimum locked away the rest of their lives. But 99.9% of books and movies end there, all tidy and artificial, everything is forgiven of the hero, and the bad guys get treated to justice.

    I have noticed here, things are not so artificially tidy,, And that keeps me, and I suspect alot of the others coming back.
    Voting, Commenting, and awaiting what comes next.

    Bravo,, you’re making this frustratingly real,, And I love it!

  • Amberlight

    Going by the judge’s threats Minerva is not big on the rights of non-human sentient beings.
    Does Jane has something like personal rights? Or is she legally considered as an item?

    • AIs rights are very limited. Most of Jane’s “rights” are Angeline’s rights as her creator, honestly. Truly sentient AIs like Jane are very very new.

      • Amberlight

        So really the only thing that keeps anyone from taking a hammer and wacking at Jane’s core is the law against damaging Angeline’s property?

        • Yeah, mostly.

          • Amberlight

            It’s a surprise she isn’t much more bitchy than she already is. I’d certainly be extra-snarky if I had the same rights as vacuum cleaner:D

          • Slightly more rights. Well, at least the penalty for breaking her would be greater ;)

          • Well, I’d say more like the “rights” of an air force drone? I wouldnt recomend you to walk in a base and smash it with a hammer.

            btw, all the readers use to forget the “singularity” part of the description that the comic had at the begining

        • Honza Prchal

          Could be worse. For example, in “custody” fights over embryos, the losing party can refuse to allow their implantation because of the whole right to “privacy” thing - essentially the right not to be a parent at any time before birth (before anyone quotes Roe v. Wade’s trimesters at me, read the more important case decided the same day, Doe v. Bolton) AND the person destroying them cannot be subjected to the penalties for destroying valuable property, because of the 13th Amendment, so being property would actually help their interests in a case.

          • Amberlight

            Well. Embryos are not sentient, so it wouldn’t get them depressed.

          • DeNitro

            Careful with what crowd you make statements about human embryos and sentience. Logic, science, and reason is something that rarely matters to those so far on eather side of that explosive issue.

            However I’m realizing, your questions about granting a AI rights would’ve already sent the looniest of those into a religious fired tirade,, LoL

    • Matt [in Middletown]

      Judge later on: “Why is my computer playing fart noises and fail trombone?”

  • Doesn’t Jane have dirt on Minerva? It wouldn’t be that hard to show them with their hands caught in the cookie jar. “Oops, didn’t mean to show you that. But since we’re on the subject…”