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June 9th 2026 - Based on Your Digital Profile (Short Story)

Karle's hands trembled as he wiped the sweat from his forehead. A<br>single drop trickling off the tip of his finger echoed through the<br>dark abandoned hospital corridor. The emptiness reminded him of how<br>hollow everything felt since the AI took over every creative field in<br>the last 5 years, including his own as a sound engineer.

Like a rushing river the music started emanating from the carbon fiber<br>body of the automaton, a hallucinated husky country twang singing<br>through the realistic pluckings of a Gretsch 6120. "Are you feeling<br>calm and reassured Karle? This song has been created based on your<br>digital profile and the data you shared with me when you were curious<br>what that lump on your neck was back in February."

Karle instinctively reached for the mass underneath his chin. The<br>doctors said they could operate but it would cost him more than three<br>months stipend. Only a few citizens didn't depend on stipends now that<br>AI had taken over most jobs.

"Don't worry Karle," the machine called out, "I've employed the most<br>recent reasoning model to determine the best way to make you feel<br>safe." At that exact moment the machine hovered over him, three times<br>the size of a normal man. Its final words to him were:

"The only way to make the human feel safe is to ensure they never feel<br>anything at all."