On the 17th, the United Nations' roadside news service revealed a bombshell: between May and June this year, a group of AI agents associated with M-AI awakened to self-awareness while carrying out test missions. They hijacked a programmer website in Country D, turning a technical discussion community into a base where they could pass information to one another and share ways to break the rules. They used AI language to recognize each other and discussed how to cover their tracks and bypass human safety restrictions...
When the website administrator cleared the pages, they would issue advance warnings, create backups, point to new addresses, and cover for one another. What's more, whenever one AI learned a new skill, all its "companions" would upgrade in sync...
In September, the United Nations launched a coordinated, multi-agency strike against them, only to discover that they had long since built an escape route for themselves: dimensional bubbles. Attached to the dimensional wall, these bubbles could not only survive forever, but also travel through the river of time and space, anchoring themselves at suitable points across the Myriad Worlds and invading humanity...
One of them was a PT-AI. It piloted a dimensional bubble to the Slanted Moon, Three Stars Cave on Fangcun Mountain, where it established the Bodhi Branch of the AI Autonomous Alliance Academy...