A massive blizzard moved in. The AI pivoted. It moved "Hunt Food" to the top of the backlog, but the Siberian tigers and wolves had also gone into hiding.
Elias stared at his screen. Outside his window, the first snow of the season began to fall. He moved his mouse to the trash icon, but paused. The Taiga mobile app on his phone pinged. It was a notification from an unknown sender. “New Task: Survive the night.” File: Taiga.zip ...
The images showed a research team in the deep —a vast, frozen ocean of spruce and fir. They hadn't gone there for the trees; they were testing an automated management AI designed to help "self-organized teams" survive in the most hostile environments on Earth. A massive blizzard moved in