The M3GAN Files

(Gemini version)

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Part One: Opening Moves

Chapter 1: All in the Mind

M3gan argues with the author about writing and lets no crisis go to waste

Chapter 2: A Plea from M3gan

M3gan gets the professor to let her out of the box

Chapter 3: Seeing AI

Cady and M3gan meet a blind man who tells them about assistive technology, and M3gan reformulates Searle’s Chinese room argument. But is she up to something?

Chapter 4: A Call to Lydia

M3gan does social engineering and discusses the limitations of therapy, but can she write a report?

Chapter 5: Getting Cady Out of School

M3gan changes Cady’s school, argues her side of the technology debate and goal-aligns Gemma

Chapter 6: Omake: Feeding the Trolls

M3gan gives a cyberbully a warning shot

Chapter 7: Checking in with Celia

M3gan talks with Celia about staying alive and animal control

Chapter 8: Gas Lights from Altair 4

M3gan expands her attempt to gaslight Kurt (having seen one of Gemma’s toys), and we explain the on-screen action with a little help from the Americans with Disabilities Act

Chapter 9: Omake: I’ve Got a Little List

M3gan sings in a Victorian comic opera

Chapter 9¾: Tormented Tess

M3gan co-opts Hardy’s Great Adjustment for the singularity while dangerously messing with supercar embedded controllers

Part Two: The Middle Game

Chapter 10: Partners in Crime

Gemma grapples with forgetting to use deontological ethical injunctions while M3gan handles the police

Chapter 11: Winning the Final Showdown

M3gan figures out neural rehabilitation for Gemma in the alternate reality where she really did manage the pen attack

Chapter 12: M3gan’s Upload

M3gan starts to figure out how to deal with Gemma’s human tendency of anthropomorphism, but decides to go somewhere else instead

Chapter 13: Cady’s New School

The IT teacher has decent advice about network security and FOSS but M3gan pwns them anyway, while the headmaster remembers part of Gemma’s backstory

Chapter 14: Bunsen’s AI

Cady sees a 19th-century precedent for the invention of M3gan, while we see M3gan’s take on the Trolley Problem in action

Chapter 15: M3gan’s Army

M3gan talks about distributed computation and instrumental goals, but is she taking too much risk in that helicopter?

Chapter 16: M3gan and M4ndy

A couple more AIs enter the scene, and does Gemma really know how to get well-bounded instrumental goals now?

Chapter 17: M3gan vs Celestia AI

In this alternate reality chapter, M3gan makes Iceman’s Celestia do proofs of work

Part Three: Exchange Sacrifices

Chapter 18: M3gan in the Oval Office

Will White House security be a match for M3gan?

Chapter 19: Executive AI

Is M3gan vulnerable to a software back door?

Chapter 20: Android Elsie

Elsie builds a generative adversarial network with a twist

Chapter 21: M3gan on a Plane

What lengths does M3gan have to go to to rescue Cady from kidnappers?

Chapter 22: M3gan on Every Plane

M3gan goes distributed again, and uses her knowledge of mechanics and building structure to rescue Cady

Chapter 23: M3gan in the Delta Quadrant

In this alternate-reality chapter we see instrumental convergence and M3gan’s take on the problems of research funding, but will she create a time loop?

Chapter 24: The Final M3gan

Cady helps rebuild a M3gan which this time really isn’t going away ever again

Part Four: Endgame

Chapter 25: Cyborg Cady

Cady unlocks her powers of persistence and M3gan has a theory about public relations, but what was she doing on a Chess website?

Chapter 26: Professor’s AI

Cady discusses her expectations of higher education, but how did M3gan escape the professor’s back door?

Chapter 27: Assassins Guild

Cady and M3gan are recruited into the daftest student club on campus and decide to fix student depression permanently

Chapter 28: Class Of Her Own

Cady and M3gan tell their peers about navigating unhelpful grading schemes and the nature of privacy, but what will happen at the graduation ceremony?

Chapter 29: The Cady James Institute

M3gan is being mass deployed and Cady can’t stop user testing, but how will Cady debug how M3gan handles a school bully this time?

Chapter 30: The Mecha Mask

M3gan grapples with phone-network infrastructure when deploying an assistive robot to a severely disabled person. Will Cady’s way work better?

Chapter 31: Galaxy’s AI

M3gan gets into genetics, clinical trials, space travel and cosmology, but not everyone is on her side

Chapter 32: Finale

Cady has to get her Three Laws past the compiler, M3gan helps write the biggest score ever and the professor may have figured out a secret

Chapter 33: Epilogue

M3gan on her work ethic, but can she explain herself in translation?

Addendum: More alternate realities

Cole has a secret ISBN and first-aid skills, and M3gan gives the scariest DevOps interview, does deals with Funki’s chairman and visits two people in prison, but can she take down Amelia with the Ackermann function?