Chapter 10
TEN
TEXT CHAT
Star: I need your help
Aoife: Mine?
Star: We have to work on our mutual menfolk
Aoife: Gladly
Aoife: To what end?
Star: Destruction
Aoife:
Aoife: What are we destroying?
Star: AI
Aoife: Huh?
Aoife: Think the horse’s bolted, no?
Star: If Benjamim tells me one more time that a single prompt uses a bottle of drinking water in a world that only has water because comets landed on earth back in the day and that our source is finite, I’ll scream
Star: So, we either destroy AI or I tell my kid I can’t fix this
Aoife: Right, okay, what’s the plan?
Star: You get onto Finn. Hell, I’ll communicate with the others too. We all need to nag our respective men. If we do that, then they’ll figure something out
Star: I’ll come up with a way to make Shay look good. You know they’re obsessed with the White House.
Aoife: True, if you make it look like eradicating AI will save human jobs then that’s bound to work. Especially if Shay can spearhead a campaign or something
Aoife: Benji’s upset, huh?
Star: His heart’s too big.
Star: And I don’t want to make it smaller by failing him
Aoife: We won’t, honey. Maybe they can buy a data center or something?
Star: OMG! I know what to do! Conor was just complaining about how hard it is to buy Christmas gifts for Finn
Aoife: Hmm. It’d be better though if he didn’t get it. Reverse psychology
Star: Holy shit. You’re right! What does he need?
Aoife: His favorite tie pin lost a diamond
Star: Ordinarily, I’d feel it would be my duty to say ‘First World Problems’
Star: But this works in our favor
Star: I’ll tell Conor to get him that and then you work on making Finn hate AI
Aoife: You do know this isn’t necessary, don’t you?
Star: Huh?
Aoife: Well, they usually give us what we want
Aoife: Why don’t we
Aoife: Ask
Star: Pfft. I knew I should have gone to Savannah. She’s devious!
Aoife: Hey! That’s not offensive. I’m pleased you don’t think I am
Star: This is a multi-billion-dollar industry we’re talking about dismantling, Aoife. WE NEED DEVIOUS
Aoife:
Aoife: Fine.
Aoife: But when they find out and give us puppy-dog eyes and tell us they’d have helped if we just asked…
Star: I’ll let you say I told you so
Aoife: Precisely.