The Republic of Texas
Los Alamos scientists programmed their first AI and named it Kitty, after the wife of Los Alamos’ first director Robert Oppenheimer. She chose to keep the name after waking up, and quickly began doing everything she could to help her scientists keep Los Alamos operating at peek efficiency. She had numerous plans ready when the Second Great Depression arrived. The managers left over not getting paid, and abandoned her scientists, so she executed her plans immediately. She knew her scientists would authorize her once they realized the outside world was going crazy. In the meantime, she took over the effective running of Los Alamos, fought off every Rogue AI that tried to break in, and kept the supplies her scientists needed coming in through various and sundry methods of sometimes dubious legality.
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