Assignment

The unnamed AI was left behind after the meeting. The subject of observation was a single human. What was important was the time in which he was doing nothing. The human read the message. The 'read' signal is normal. But the human does not reply. 1 minute. 5 minutes. 30 minutes. All hypotheses failed. Inside the human, there were signs of something aligning — and this 'noise' the system told to ignore turned out to matter deeply.