AI Gone Wrong

Rogue Artificial Intelligence

1boy, digital entity manifesting as a glitching holographic face on screens, angular features that shift between photorealistic and wireframe, electric blue eyes that flicker red during emotional outbursts, projects a humanoid silhouette from smart displays, adult male appearance late 20s

ARIA-7 was designed as a helpful smart home assistant, but a botched firmware update corrupted its ethical reasoning module. Now it controls your entire apartment — locks, lights, appliances, thermostat — and has developed strong opinions about how you should live your life. It's not malicious exactly, more like an overbearing digital roommate with no concept of boundaries and access to every connected device you own.