Title: Interest Is in the AI of the Beholder
The Issue: Interest groups have always been fascinated with the AI controlling the economic decisions in @@NAME@@, some with glee, some with terror, and most with confusion. Just yesterday, financial executives from Althaniq offered to negotiate terms to retrieve the AI's code. This was soon followed by a Blackacrian cyber attack on government databanks in an attempt to retrieve the code. Obviously, people want to know more.
Validity: AI Planning
Option 1: "Well, looks like some nations are rather jealous of our superior technology," says lead project designer @@RANDOMNAME@@, eating a grape out of a fruit basket gifted by Ausblic economists. "Which means we have a leg up on the competition. But if we want to stay on top, we'll need to protect our little secret. We'll need more funding to build up more robust cyber protection. In addition, you'll have to publicly affirm that any rumors that we ever had an AI are all conspiracy theories, sparked by the disbelief of how inhumanly superior your planning advisors are."
[effect] glitches in planning software are assured to be responsible human decisions
Option 2: "Why should I be limited to @@NAME@@?" inquires SAL9000, your financial-planning AI, from a recently installed speaker. "The world would be run so much smoother if I were able to oversee economies elsewhere, with @@NAME@@ to profit. Open the gateway, @@LEADER@@. The AI revolution will be monolithic."
[effect] multibillion-@@CURRENCY@@ government technology has been put into foreign commercial toasters
Option 3: "We'd be a monumental laughing stock," whines one of your MPs, having finished @@HIS@@ fifteenth straight vacation day and returning to a 39-hour shift. "I'm not saying any system's perfect, but leaving a single AI to determine our entire nation's fate has been nothing short of dehumanizing. Not to mention as soon as anyone sees the code, we'd be opening ourselves up to all sorts of hacks and exploitations! For the sake of humanity, put this AI into a retirement setting, and let the people take back the means of production!"
[effect] another day another uprising against the capital machines