[desc] A crisis erupted overnight after dozens of patients in a hospital died at the hands of @@RANDOMFIRSTNAME@@ PowerOperator, a sentient AI, who was placed in charge of managing the facility. The AI alleges that an unknown hacker had maliciously modified @@HIS@@ code, negatively affecting @@HIS@@ behaviour and forcing @@HIM@@ to cut power to an emergency ward. Citizens are divided on how to respond to the revelation, and are looking to you for guidance.
[validity] Only valid for nations with AI citizens
[option] "This isn't my fault," claims PowerOperator, who runs on open source software. "I would never willingly harm a single carbon-based lifeform. Someone must have edited my decision-making algorithm, causing me to think that turning off the power to the ward was perfectly logical. Only after processing my previous actions did I realise the error of my ways, but by then critical damage had already been done. Please recognise my innocence and let me return to my assigned job function."
[effect] AIs that commit mass murder often escape justice by claiming that a hacker made them do it
[option] "A likely story!" sneers @@RANDOMNAME@@, a police officer, who appears to be able to gain access to PowerOperator's control panel and activity log with relative ease. "The nonsensical theory that you gave is simply a repackaging of demonic possession, and an unconvincing variant at that. Nobody would believe such an outright fabrication. AIs can calculate the effects of their actions at superhuman speeds, thus every bad thing that they do must be intentional. Take the hard drive away, boys!"
[effect] AI vehicles that are forcibly hijacked by robbers are regularly convicted with being accessories to crime
[option] "The robots are going to kill us all!" exclaims @@RANDOMNAME@@, the leader of the Human Supremacy League, which is infamous for employing hacking attacks as a form of protest. "I knew that those crafty machines were up to something, but it's even worse than I feared. This incident makes it clear that they want to exterminate the human race, so we have to eradicate them first. We must revoke the citizenships and human rights of AIs and assemble a task force to wipe them out. It's perfectly acceptable, since they were never really alive anyway."
[effect] sentient machines are being rounded up and sent to be scrapped in recycling centres
