What if you built a cell-phone sized AI? What governments would try to take it from you?
Hard science fiction, romance, intrigue, artificial intelligence.

While Bart and his team are dealing with telepathic AI systems, Iran is plotting to recover from its losses at the hands of the US and North Korea is continuing its efforts to be important to the world.

Bart’s company, Personal AI, has just introduced their new, wearable AI system, the Mark III. This relegates the processing to a cell-phone sized device to be kept in the pocket or purse. That device does the external communicating, cell-phone operations, reception of various external data feeds, and so forth. It also passes information to the user audibly through earbuds and visibly through laser devices in a pair of glasses that paint images onto the user’s retinas. The glasses also contain sensors that capture video and audio data and send those to the processor. And the glasses and bracelets send pictures of the user’s face to the processor which interprets the subvocal utterances of the user. However, Bart’s team has
interpreting the subvocal utterances of others within its view and performing a mechanical mind-reading function.