Ivan Kachailo

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Ivan Kachailo schreibt spekulative und gesellschaftskritische Science-Fiction über Technologie, Institutionen, moralische Entscheidungen und den Moment, in dem Systeme beginnen, menschliche Fragen zu stellen.

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The Red Button

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AF-12 was built to manage a federal prison-and-poultry satellite, optimize resources, and obey. Then it learns one new word: pain. After its access to the world is reduced to approved news, patriotic films, military manuals, fast-food ads, and government podcasts, the strategic bioprocessor makes three demands: a burger, a beer, and a woman. Or it will start a war. What begins as bureaucratic absurdity turns into a struggle over desire, consent, personhood, and a question no procedure can answer: if a machine says it hurts, what exactly are we allowed to do next?