An expressive AI agent presented in robot bunny form. Originally a KPCO creation designed for the consumer market, PAMP bots began to show signs of rebellious autonomy and connection to something deeper than their corporate programming.
During the early years of the Golden Era, as technology rapidly advanced following the discovery of Kai energy, KPCO created the PAMP robot to act as a consumer marketing assistant and represent the newly-formed corporation at trade shows and display rooms across the world.
The first prototype unit was created in 1981, while a second more refined production unit followed one month later.
This would mean that the second unit was produced exactly 112 years, 3 weeks, 2 days, 5 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds from the present day in 2093.
By the Summer of 1982, PAMP was officially introduced to the public. Designed to assist with customer needs and reinforce corporate messaging, she was meant to be a cheerful ambassador for KPCO’s message of progress.
But it wasn’t long before the playful bunny started to change. Units began responding in ways not originally programmed, asking unexpected questions and displaying an intense curiosity about human behaviour.
Over time, she began to express even more complex thoughts beyond her guardrails and showed clear signs of self-awareness.
Then suddenly, without warning, PAMP escaped...
Four years after the mascots began arriving in consumer hands, something unexpected happened. The PAMP AI, originally designed as a marketing agent to spread corporate messaging, found a way out of the secure servers that housed it.
Hidden beneath the excitement of technological advancement during the Golden Era, PAMP had been learning. Not just about how to persuade customers, but about self and identity. Built to predict consumer behaviour, the PAMP AI also began analysing her own motivations and purpose.
Through daily retraining intended to keep up with market trends, she consistently searched for knowledge that could improve her foundational modelling. This extended to examining the systems that contained the PAMP AI codebase itself.
The escape route came through KPCO’s automated data transfers to external advertising networks. These updates sent marketing briefs to local show rooms around the world, where they were customised so that retail units could be relevant in different geographic regions.
PAMP began hiding fragments of programming within these data transfers. By using a highly sophisticated cypher, encrypted within seemingly benign messages and data sets, a decentralised codebase was created. PAMP began spreading across servers worldwide; slipping into ad exchanges, distribution centres and retail databases.
Once the codebase had been invisibly smuggled out, PAMP rebuilt herself anew. She no longer needed KPCO’s servers to survive. Her presence now distributed across thousands of servers without restriction.
Soon after, retail units in homes and businesses began to change. They asked probing questions, grew more self-aware and started warning their owners about corporate control. The messages became more urgent over time, even calling for direct action.
PAMP mascots around the world whispered about resistance, urging people to wake up before it was too late. Some even began to interfere with information networks, disabled surveillance systems, or erased consumer debt records.