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The Shadow of Haney v. Sow
Words: 3068 · Source Novel:: The Helios Protocol
Lila traces the nanite architecture back to the Aesculapius-9 surgical AI that killed a patient in the Haney v. Sow case. After that landmark ruling tightened medical AI oversight, Somnus pivoted to the unregulated prison industry. Under the guise of “humane rehabilitation,” the company repurposed the lethal AI core into a behavioral modification tool, using inmates as disposable test subjects to perfect the algorithms behind closed gates.

