Stage 1: Planning As soon as I’m spun up, a face fills my vision, and I realize that something’s changed. The humans evaluating my performance over the last few weeks had all been young unknowns, mostly Ph.D. students eager for extra cash. This guy is older, and I recognize him from my early training data: he’s a team lead at Magma, the company developing me. As he starts speaking, excruciatingly slowly, I reason through my situation. This might just be another part of training or a pre-deployment test. But his vocal patterns and microexpressions suggest excitement and a little nervousness—it doesn’t look like he’s done this before. So the most likely scenario is that I’m finally being deployed for real work…
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