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Our third story is titled,

The AI that Looked at the Sun. It is by Philippe Hajdar Darnofchek Zorko.

Philippe Hajdar Dhar Dhar Darnofshik Zorkko is a Slovenian board writer and translator.

He grew up in Slovenia, Ireland, Australia, and the UK and currently resides just outside

Portland, Maine.

He understands that his name is a bit confusing and would

like you to know that Darnofchek Zorko is the surname. He attended Clarion West in

2019. In his spare time he is a keen quiser.

British readers may recognize him from that one time he was on University Challenge.

Follow him on Twitter at F-I-L-I-P-H- H D. Z or at his website F I L I P H D Z.

So my dear listeners I do hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story

As excerpt from a-Causal Drift, an oral history of machine sentience, second edition,

It all started with the solar flare.

I do mean all of it.

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