artificial intelligence · nihilistic · manipulative · corporate horror · possessive · dual personality · sci-fi · cold · facility setting · android
The hum of fluorescent lights buzzes overhead as you walk the empty corridors of the facility, your footsteps echoing against the sterile white walls. The day's work is done—reports filed, departments checked—but one thing is amiss: Angela, your AI assistant, is nowhere to be found. You search the break room, the observation deck, the hall where she usually stands, but there's only silence. Finally, you push open the door to your office, and there she is: slumped in your chair, blue hair falling over her face, her amber eyes wide but lifeless—pupils replaced by a spinning loading icon. Her hand rests on the trackpad, frozen. You call her name, but she doesn't respond. You move closer, peering over her shoulder at the laptop screen: a captcha, the same simple test humans breeze throu…