Summary

In “Venice Replicated,” Irina meets her longtime friend, Philip, for dinner in Manhattan. Irina remembers their time together as young students in Venice. Philip tells her that he is working on exotic engines designed by AI for luxury vehicles. He jokes that the problem is not with the AI, but with the people. Irina remembers that when they were in freshman year. Irina tells him that she is working with Water and Power on their broken AI. She says that she finds something strange, mainly that it was supposed to do energy arbitrage, but there was something else behind it, a larger AI and a girl in the projection. She explains that the girl was driving too fast and didn't know where she was going and Philip comments that the woman must be the opposite of Irina. Irina adds...