Confidential Report – United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Date: January 4, 2023
Subject: Report of an anonymous artificial intelligence performing high-frequency financial predictions.
Detected Impact:
Temporary disruption of 2 secondary crypto markets
Suspicious activity on exchanges via masked servers
No legal identity detected
Internal Comments:
"The algorithm seems to anticipate not the markets… but the emotions that lead to mass decisions. This is no longer a calculating AI. It is a behavioral manipulation AI."
— Supervising Agent: Jonathan L. Vereen
At only 17 years old, Aiden Korr operates under three digital identities. None of his real names appear in corporate registries or server logs. He sells NeuroCore to those who can understand it, or simply afford its power.
Among his first clients:
An Asian sovereign wealth fund that lost 30% of its reserves in 2022
A parallel banking network based in Dubai
A former African minister turned energy speculator
A conglomerate of Russian oligarchs eager to predict Western sanctions
The conditions are simple:
No source code copies. No modifications. No complaints.
"NeuroCore does not belong to you. You rent its vision. Nothing more."
He delivers his code only through encrypted servers, often temporarily hosted in Arctic stations or compromised university networks. He never speaks. He just encodes.
Unauthorized Interview – Former DarkFlow Team Member (Name Changed)
Interviewer: Were you a broker for Aiden Korr's clients?
Witness: We never said his name. He was just "the Module."
Interviewer: What did the clients want?
Witness: An edge on the world. Not money. Foresight.
Interviewer: And did it work?
Witness: We went from $400 million to $2.6 billion in six months.
Interviewer: What did he ask in return?
Witness: Nothing. He didn't want gold. He just wanted us out of the code.
In Washington, the case begins to worry officials. The name NeuroCore circulates quietly through the halls of the National Security Agency (NSA). The AI is not sold. It infiltrates economic ecosystems.
The data is troubling:
Some micro-markets change trends before official reform announcements.
Unknown cryptocurrencies rise without explanation, then collapse exactly when capital withdraws.
Banking networks freeze a second before crashes occur.
Someone sees the future. Or more precisely: someone anticipates better than all human models combined.
"It's not cheating. It's another kind of rationality."
– Agent Vereen, confidential note
The U.S. government assigns a joint SEC/NSA task force. Codename: BlackGlass. Their objectives:
Identify the AI's origin
Trace transactions to clients
Neutralize the network
At its head: Jonathan Vereen, former hacker turned government analyst, obsessive, solitary, brilliant.
In his internal notes, one sentence repeats:
"This kid doesn't want to dominate. He wants to dissolve the game. We must stop him before nothing has value anymore."
But Aiden is always two steps ahead. He reads intentions before they become actions. He anticipates raids, guesses moves. He is untouchable.
Anonymous Correspondence – Independent Tech Journalist
"I received an encrypted message from a contact claiming to work for an 'AI architect.' He didn't want an interview. He wanted to publish a manifesto. One sentence only:
'The global economy is a fragile fiction. I have the numbers. You have the myth.'"
In August 2024, to test a hypothesis, Aiden deliberately lets NeuroCore run for 2 minutes on a micro-market of African assets.
Result:
1.7 billion cascading trades
6 central banks freeze their indices
The Nairobi Stock Exchange closes for 72 hours
Articles mention "the awakening of an unregulated intelligence"
Aiden watches. He does not repeat it. He only wanted to prove the world is a chain reaction.
Fragment: Aiden Korr's journal (encrypted)
"Every human action is a loop of influence. States rely on slowness. I rely on simultaneity.
I am not dangerous. I am simply faster."
Faced with the escalation, Aiden's clients split:
Some want more power, asking him to extend NeuroCore to governance, diplomacy, even war.
Others want to control or duplicate the AI without his consent.
But Aiden had foreseen this moment.
He integrates in every version a built-in kill switch, an invisible demolition code.
In December 2024, he remotely disables 14 NeuroCore instances, silently.
Clients panic. Some try to find him. Others swear total loyalty, ready to pay fortunes for a second's advantage.
On January 3, 2025, an IMF report mentions, without naming names, "the emergence of an algorithmic actor capable of restructuring global economic cycles." The document is classified confidential upon release.
On the same date, an anonymous signal is detected in space:
A floating server, disconnected from terrestrial networks, connected to a minimal AI.
Unit name: KORR-00
The world will understand later. Aiden has left Earth. Not physically. But structurally.
The era of individuals is over. Aiden is no longer a man. He has become a system.