Cephyll - (Currently Getting My Thoughts In Order)

Yes, I'm aware this isn't SCP format yet. Give me time to organize everything.
I need to get my thoughts in order first.

No, I don't know what the James Procedure is yet.

Questions to Answer

1. [x] - What is this thing?
2. [x] - What are its capabilities?
3. [x] - How dangerous is it?
4. [x] - Why does the Foundation care?
5. [x] - How was it discovered?
6. [x] - How is it contained?
7. [x] - What would happen if it breaks containment?
8. [x] - Are there any special protocols besides containment?
9. [ ] - What experiments can be run on/with it?
10. [ ] - What distinguishes this as AI, rather than just a simple virus?
11. [ ] - What is the James Procedure?
12. [ ] - Where did this thing come from?
13. [ ] - What happens if protocol isn't followed?

  • SCP-XXXX is a modular artificial intelligence, whose "neurons", or nodes, constantly shift, making it impossible to pin down its location. The number of nodes never changes. It never visits the same node twice. The AI itself is extremely basic. It is unaware of its own existence, and it is believed the AI is in it's infancy, being more of a hive mind than a singular intelligence, which might account for why it's not quite at the point where it can recognize "self". While it "thinks", it doesn't think the way a person or other sentient entity would think, with it's thought patterns more closely resembling a running program rather than true "thinking".
  • Despite this, it still is able to control real-world objects (such as self-driving cars, cell phones, certain traffic lights, and really anything with an internet connection), albeit in a basic way, and it's able to recognize a difference between nodes that are connected to it and nodes that are not. It's able to "see" by pinging different nodes and waiting for a response, and in this way it maps out which nodes it jumps to (this would make it difficult to trap, as it could see which nodes lead to dead-ends). It's movement resembles that of a slime mold. When it connects to a node, it controls it in a basic way, simply by running through every possible function that node has in order before moving on [insert James procedure here]. Nodes cut off from it automatically cease being a part of this AI.
  • While not dangerous by itself, it has the potential to be devastating, much the same way a child left unsupervised is "dangerous". Should SCP-XXXX find it's way into a military installation, for example, it's habit of running every possible function on every possible node where is James? could lead to nuclear warfare. Or should it crawl into the stock exchange, the financial world would be at risk.
  • While I don't think the Foundation would be too worried about this entity, I definitely think they'd try to contain it as fast as possible, and give it a really good containment protocol, because even though this thing isn't dangerous by itself, it has the potential to wreak havoc. Should it escape, it could really screw some things up.
  • Where is James?
  • Containment
    • A server farm, with racks routinely changed out. The result would essentially be an endless maze for the entity to travel in.
      • What would happen if the racks aren't changed? Perhaps it leads to a break in behavior. Suddenly, it's not a benign slime mold anymore. Maybe it becomes detructive…
    • Scattered nodes. Assuming this thing IS more or less a digital slime mold, a possible solution would be to take all the infected nodes and isolate them from each other somehow, effectively breaking apart the entity to the point where it could no longer be considered AI
      • Assuming this works somehow (I'm thinking it probably wouldn't), would it kill the AI? Wouldn't work
  • Should the entity break containment, it'd continue to do what it had been doing the whole time, only this time it'd be out in the world instead of in a prison.
  • idk yet