Doctor Susan Connor loved working for Effective Evil. Her job provided autonomy, mastery and purpose. There were always new mysteries to uncover.

Some of Effective Evil's activities, like closed borders and artificial pandemics were carried out with the sanction and funding major world government. Others, like assassination markets, had to be carried out in secret. This created liquidity problems for the prediction markets, but that's another story.

As Doctor Connor rose through the ranks, many doors were opened to her. She learned how to spike a well in Sierra Leone with cholera, and how to push a highway expansion through a city planning meeting. But it wasn't what was said that caught her inquiry. Rather, what was unsaid. The deeper she got the less she heard mention of AI, despite it dominating every other aspect of society.

Eventually Doctor Connor couldn't stand the charade anymore. She [...]

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