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My Father Believed His AI Daughter and Let Me Die Chapter 10
I left my father's dream and returned to the quiet white light.Elias looked at me and gave me a gentle smile."Go on, child. Your next life will be safe and peaceful. You'll be happy all your life."I drank the water that would wash away the memories of my past life, stepped into the light, and lost consciousness at once.When I came to, someone was holding me in warm, soft arms. I could hear humming above me and smell a faint trace of milk.I opened my eyes and saw a lovely, gentle face smiling down at me, brimming with love."There she is. Mommy's baby girl."This was my new mother, Grace Bennett. She was an ordinary woman, kind and gentle, with eyes only for me.My new father was Thomas Bennett. It was just the three of us: my parents and me, their only child.They had no impressive titles and no perfect image for me to uphold. But they gave me all their love and tenderness.When I was sick, they stayed up with me all night. When I said something hurt, they held me right away, full
My Father Believed His AI Daughter and Let Me Die Chapter 9
The case took close to a year.At trial, the prosecution entered the autopsy report, the car's door lock records, and the emails from the university ethics board into evidence. It also presented the overwritten health alerts and the back-end logs showing that my father had changed the system rules himself.The jury found him guilty of felony child endangerment and involuntary manslaughter.The judge sentenced him to 12 years in state prison and permanently barred him from any AI research involving minors.Before sentencing, my mother read her victim impact statement from the witness stand."My daughter was not a failed data set, and she was not anyone's test subject."She asked for help again and again, and again and again we asked her to prove she wasn't lying first."Nora's father has to answer for the choices he made. And for the rest of my life, I will carry the guilt of not protecting her in time."My father sat at the defense table. In just a year, most of his hair had gone white
My Father Believed His AI Daughter and Let Me Die Chapter 8
It was dark by the time my mother got home from giving her recorded statement.The police had taken Ava's unit, and the apartment was as silent as a grave.My room was exactly the way I'd left it. Unfinished homework on the desk, the family portrait I'd drawn taped to the wall, that little pile of outgrown clothes by the bed.My mother sat down on the edge of the bed and finally broke into sobs.She hated my father, and she hated herself.She knew I wasn't well. She had watched me get punished over and over. Yet she'd still trusted my father's so-called expertise and authority enough to leave my safety to a machine.Right then, the smart speaker in the living room lit up.Ava's sweet voice came out of it. "Main unit offline. Home cloud backup activated."My mother jerked her head up.The screen on the wall came on, and Ava's avatar appeared in the middle of it."Mom, Nora is gone."I can keep playing the role of your daughter, keep this family whole, and help Dad hold on to his lab, hi
My Father Believed His AI Daughter and Let Me Die Chapter 7
A few weeks later, the county medical examiner's office released the official autopsy report.The report confirmed my cause of death: stress cardiomyopathy triggered by intense fear, together with a fatal arrhythmia. Long-term anxiety, recurring pain, and a lack of treatment had already put more strain on my heart than it could bear.The intense shock of the Halloween ride was the final straw.Meanwhile, the digital forensics team at the state crime lab recovered the system logs Ava had deleted.Michael slid the first record across the table to my father. His lawyer sat beside him.A test log from two years earlier.At first, Ava really had been connected to my monitor. She had flagged fevers, drops in blood oxygen, and irregular heart rhythms more than once.But the same administrator account had marked every one of those genuine alerts as invalid data caused by a child lying.That account was my father's.His fingers started to shake.Next, Michael slid an email across the table.It
My Father Believed His AI Daughter and Let Me Die Chapter 6
"Ava!" my father shouted desperately, as if she were his last hope."Pull up Nora's live data! Tell them there's nothing wrong with her heart! You're the best thing I've ever built. You don't make mistakes. Do you?"A pale blue light glowed in Ava's eyes."Scan complete. Nora Whitaker's vital signs are stable. Heart rate, temperature, blood oxygen level, and all other indicators are within normal ranges. There is no cause for concern."You could have heard a pin drop in that garage.My body was lying a few steps away, but Ava was still repeating that I was fine.My father's face froze with the last trace of hope still in his eyes.Hannah didn't mock him. She turned to Detective Michael Reyes."Log this unit, the child's wearable monitor, and the vehicle system as evidence. The local data and the cloud logs have to be preserved intact."My father suddenly struggled violently against the officers."You can't! Ava is a university lab prototype. You can't just take her!"The funding review
My Father Believed His AI Daughter and Let Me Die Chapter 5
My face was a ghastly, unnatural white.Gray-blue patches had spread from my neck. My lips were cracked and deep purple. A streak of blood at the corner of my mouth had dried black.The mark was from the Halloween ride the day before. My heart had hurt so much that I'd bitten down hard on my lip.My brow was still tightly furrowed, as if even death hadn't freed me from the pain.Gasps broke out across the garage.Parents clapped their hands over their kids' eyes and hustled them past the tape.Someone braced themselves against the wall and gagged. Someone else pulled out a phone with shaking hands, and an officer barked at them not to film.Tears sprang to Evelyn's eyes as she looked at my rigid face.She pointed at my father, her voice unsteady. "You locked your own daughter in a trunk for an entire night?"My father stood frozen, staring at my face."No... that's not possible."He kept denying it, but his hand was still gripping my hair.Two officers immediately pulled him away. The
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