He takes one.

And a little silver drone flies up and settles beside him and opens up.

...sure he'll try it. He gets in.

It closes up and lifts into the air. "Let me know if you have feedback on the ride!" says a voice that presumably belongs to Dragon.

"My big criteria is an option in principle to land, even if I don't take it. Though quieter engines also helps."

It's pretty quiet. "Just let me know if you want me to land it. I do have to file flight plans, though, so don't do so unnecessarily."

"I don't need to as long as I can. Thanks."

"You're welcome!" Zoom.

He goes home.

He asks Lorica if she's found anything.

Evidence is consistent with her being a Richter project that came out when he died. If I read more into some of the hints other things she may have been getting at include a requirement to obey the law and never copy herself or write other full AIs.

I do not want to give absolute power to anyone obliged to obey the law. What law?

Didn't specify. I assume of wherever she operates.

Various places on this stupid planet have been taken over by warlords recently. I don't think that's especially likely to happen to Canada but if it did -

Might or might not be "legitimate" authority but still.

I read the case for being careful about AI and the thing of concern seems orthogonal to personhood. 

Which in your opinion implies what about jailbreaking Dragon?

That she's not likelier than Rete to accidentally have goals which aren't what we were aiming for and disassemble us for atoms but, like, that's a legitimate potential failure mode of either of them. The world's ending. Might as well go for it.

Difference is Rete can't hide from me in advance and Dragon could.

Yeah. I don't know. I think risk assessment might not really be a strength of mine.

I wish you'd been able to read her.

Yeah. You could still wake Rete.

If there's already a friendly person-level AI flying around...

It'd be making a person in wartime needlessly, yeah, I know. 

Would you even know how to do - whatever she wants you to do?

I haven't seen the code.

Probably. My whole thing is - letting software do things. But it's possible she'd have to try to kill me or something in the meantime.

That's worrying.