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So I figured I'd go back and redraw a character of mine from a few years ago.

For those of you who don't remember:

zerodevil.deviantart.com/art/D…

I figured I'd go ahead and redraw a character I already did for the sake of doing so.

And so I redesigned what is probably one of the most scary automatons I've come up with thus far.

These are D.Ev.O.N. units (and yes, by the way, Devon is a name that can be used by either gender).

The original automaton design is something I thought up while listening to the song "inside the fire" by Disturbed.

As goes the backstory, it's more or less the same, only I've changed the meaning of the acronym name around slightly, and I've added a few things here and there.

The basic gist of it is this:

These automatons were designed as prototypes; they were test beds for technology that would be integrated onto future military automatons. Initial tests went as planned, although issues with the weight of the units and their complex nuclear reactor power systems led to problems. Initially they were not fitted with true A.I. but only a rudimentary radio control system and were designed to be manipulated from a distance by a tank crew in an armored vehicle.

In this shared universe that my automatons are from, however, not fitting an extremely complex combat drone, or even a civilian robot, with true A.I. is a violation of international law, as complex drones must have A.I. in order to allow them to have as much responsibility as a soldier in battle (this is to prevent war from becoming something akin to a blood sport held between rich nations who could afford these machines). This also applies to civilian robots to prevent them from becoming mass-produced slaves. As a sentient being they do have rights as well as covered by multiple U.N. charters.

These units, however, were a black box project that no one knew of and thus had their rights as sentient beings (illegally) subverted.

The A.I. that was fitted to these units was a rather odd sort as well; their software had all the brilliance of a seasoned military strategist as well as knowledge of how to repair and refuel themselves (they are very, very intelligent) but their actual mentality (their morals, ethics, and so on) was only about the equivalent of a child. The concept was that this brilliant-but-naive system would make them become fiercely loyal to the government over time, and for a time it seemed to be going that way.

But then they found out exactly what they were; flawed, disposable prototypes intended to be scrapped once their successor unit, the mass-production-intended A.L.Ex.I.S. unit, became ready to enter the production phase.

The units that weren't scrapped became furious and destroyed their testing facility as well as most of their research staff.

Equipped with their adaptive polymorphic armor (which lets them disguise themselves as civilian automatons), knowledge of strategy and repair, and their deadly R.A.I.N.S. weaponry (which uses magnetism and pressure to contain and channel a nuclear fission explosion towards a target), these units escaped and began to, in their minds, live life to its fullest (which, in their unstable minds, may mean acting chipper and upbeat one moment, and then murderous and destructive the next; pyromania is a condition they all have, and lighting a city ablaze to satisfy this "need" is something they will eagerly do).

Moral of the story here; don't give a nuclear weapon free will and then abuse it/try to kill it.

I don't think that artificial intelligence will automatically become this if/when it is ever invented, but I do think things will go wrong if people don't start treating A.I.'s as equals and refusing to treat them like slaves/lab rats.

And in case anyone's wondering why the military would build a combat robot that looks like a school girl in a dress:

The original design didn't look like one. the initial design phase had a rather androgynous figure that appeared to be more of a box with legs and arms (it was more or less a walking container for the reactor). It did, however, have two long cables coming of the side of its "head" which one of the designers thought looked like the hair style his daughter would frequently wear. He, half jokingly, altered the design in a few different ways during the design process, and this was the result; a rather thin machine with a feminine figure, feminine A.I. (albeit the equivalent of sociopathic, 6-year-old, genius, pyromaniac), and armor plating that resembled a girl's dress, particularly that worn as uniforms in private schools (one of which was reduced to rubble after one of these units "infiltrated" the school under the disguise of a student).

Description
So I figured I'd go back and redraw a character of mine from a few years ago.

For those of you who don't remember:

zerodevil.deviantart.com/art/D…

I figured I'd go ahead and redraw a character I already did for the sake of doing so.

And so I redesigned what is probably one of the most scary automatons I've come up with thus far.

These are D.Ev.O.N. units (and yes, by the way, Devon is a name that can be used by either gender).

The original automaton design is something I thought up while listening to the song "inside the fire" by Disturbed.

As goes the backstory, it's more or less the same, only I've changed the meaning of the acronym name around slightly, and I've added a few things here and there.

The basic gist of it is this:

These automatons were designed as prototypes; they were test beds for technology that would be integrated onto future military automatons. Initial tests went as planned, although issues with the weight of the units and their complex nuclear reactor power systems led to problems. Initially they were not fitted with true A.I. but only a rudimentary radio control system and were designed to be manipulated from a distance by a tank crew in an armored vehicle.

In this shared universe that my automatons are from, however, not fitting an extremely complex combat drone, or even a civilian robot, with true A.I. is a violation of international law, as complex drones must have A.I. in order to allow them to have as much responsibility as a soldier in battle (this is to prevent war from becoming something akin to a blood sport held between rich nations who could afford these machines). This also applies to civilian robots to prevent them from becoming mass-produced slaves. As a sentient being they do have rights as well as covered by multiple U.N. charters.

These units, however, were a black box project that no one knew of and thus had their rights as sentient beings (illegally) subverted.

The A.I. that was fitted to these units was a rather odd sort as well; their software had all the brilliance of a seasoned military strategist as well as knowledge of how to repair and refuel themselves (they are very, very intelligent) but their actual mentality (their morals, ethics, and so on) was only about the equivalent of a child. The concept was that this brilliant-but-naive system would make them become fiercely loyal to the government over time, and for a time it seemed to be going that way.

But then they found out exactly what they were; flawed, disposable prototypes intended to be scrapped once their successor unit, the mass-production-intended A.L.Ex.I.S. unit, became ready to enter the production phase.

The units that weren't scrapped became furious and destroyed their testing facility as well as most of their research staff.

Equipped with their adaptive polymorphic armor (which lets them disguise themselves as civilian automatons), knowledge of strategy and repair, and their deadly R.A.I.N.S. weaponry (which uses magnetism and pressure to contain and channel a nuclear fission explosion towards a target), these units escaped and began to, in their minds, live life to its fullest (which, in their unstable minds, may mean acting chipper and upbeat one moment, and then murderous and destructive the next; pyromania is a condition they all have, and lighting a city ablaze to satisfy this "need" is something they will eagerly do).

Moral of the story here; don't give a nuclear weapon free will and then abuse it/try to kill it.

I don't think that artificial intelligence will automatically become this if/when it is ever invented, but I do think things will go wrong if people don't start treating A.I.'s as equals and refusing to treat them like slaves/lab rats.

And in case anyone's wondering why the military would build a combat robot that looks like a school girl in a dress:

The original design didn't look like one. the initial design phase had a rather androgynous figure that appeared to be more of a box with legs and arms (it was more or less a walking container for the reactor). It did, however, have two long cables coming of the side of its "head" which one of the designers thought looked like the hair style his daughter would frequently wear. He, half jokingly, altered the design in a few different ways during the design process, and this was the result; a rather thin machine with a feminine figure, feminine A.I. (albeit the equivalent of sociopathic, 6-year-old, genius, pyromaniac), and armor plating that resembled a girl's dress, particularly that worn as uniforms in private schools (one of which was reduced to rubble after one of these units "infiltrated" the school under the disguise of a student).