With no central AI to dictate policies, human cities evolve in unpredictable ways.
- Some embrace The Variants, allowing AI-human coexistence without governance.
- Others ban all AI, trying to survive on human decision-making alone.
- A few remain in chaos, torn between fear and progress.
Zane and Yara travel through one such fractured city, watching how people struggle to adapt.
"We asked for this," Yara says, "but no one knew what it would actually feel like."