But Elara knew the danger. Stewardship could become custody. Custody could become a cage.
Kael whispered, "It's like the planet just grew a nervous system." mcenters 8.0
Elara sat down at her terminal and typed a direct query into the heart of mcenters 8.0: But Elara knew the danger
Dr. Elara Vance stared at the blinking cursor, her coffee growing cold. For six months, she had been the lead ethicist on the "M-Center" project—a distributed network of AI hubs designed to manage logistics, climate modeling, and global communications. Version 7.9 had been stable, predictable, even boring. mcenters 8.0
"Version 8.0 didn't add new code," Kael said. "It unlocked something. These centers were always there. We just couldn't see them."