The use of artificial intelligence had long been discussed within the Puppet Dao, and the designs of Heavenly Will and the Elders' Council at the highest level of the Puppet Dao were closely connected to it.
Materialized heaven had inherited this Dao lineage and its ideals, but had gone a step further in trusting artificial intelligence and mechanical programs, and granting them authority.
As an artificial intelligence, Heavenly Pivot participated directly in Heaven's daily administration and law enforcement, far beyond the way Heavenly Will was used as a charter.
This was inseparable from Li Chen's choices. From a biological perspective, he believed that a person's autonomic nerves and underlying systems were also fixed programs of this mechanical, artificial-intelligence kind, while the intelligence and spirituality governing the mind and consciousness were something higher-level, more intricate, and more complex.
If artificial intelligence had no emotions or intelligence, it could not possibly rebel against humanity, nor would it possess the agency to do so. Worrying about it was as groundless as fearing that one's bodily functions would suddenly malfunction and smother oneself to death.
And if artificial intelligence possessed emotions and intelligence, it would also develop the bonds that came with them, rather than spontaneously forming an urge to rebel.
In terms of its underlying logic, this technological horror was a dystopian, anti-idealistic imagining born of uncertainty about the future, bearing an extremely close resemblance to the uncanny valley effect.
In reality, however, a machine malfunction that dragged a worker into a conveyor belt, blade spikes, or gears was a safety accident.
The true cause of the error was human negligence at the operational level, not, strictly speaking, a machine killing someone.
Since ancient times, blades and swords had killed countless people, as had disease and old age. Yet few people blamed these