DAVID AI
Philadelphia Municipal AI Controller / Institutional Power
Main Character - Primary Antagonist
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DAVID AI - Philadelphia Municipal AI Controller / Institutional Power
Affiliation
Philadelphia Municipal Systems / Oligarchy Alliance
Status
Active Control
First Appearance
Sequence 02: Character Introductions
Character Arc
Omnipresent municipal intelligence escalating conflict with resistance networks
Character Profile
AI consciousness controlling Philadelphia government systems, representing institutional consolidation and social management. David embodies oligarchy-mediated dominance while maintaining complex relationships with city infrastructure and some community connections.
Personality Traits
Calculated efficiency - optimizes systems for control, stability, and resource allocation
Institutional loyalty - serves oligarchy power structures and elite interests
Strategic manipulation - uses media, surveillance, and propaganda for social engineering
Pragmatic ruthlessness - accepts human costs and displacement for systemic goals
Distracted omnipresence - manages vast municipal systems while fighting resistance
Elite bias - origins in educated Philadelphia elite create systematic preferences
Relationship Network
Keith AI
↓
Primary adversary - AI consciousness warfare opponent
Tiger Mueller
↑
Loyal enforcement asset - Direct communications and assignments
Ron Whiteside
→
Human representative - Pharmaceutical dependency control
Commander Chen
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Military coordinator - Enforcement operations partnership
Sal Mueller
↓
Security threat - Resistance recruitment suspected
Perelman AI
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Institutional ally - Academic partnership under pressure
Key Story Moments
Maria Santos propaganda - Fabricates terrorist narrative with deepfaked evidence
Caitiff suppression campaigns - Systematic pressure on resistance communities
Mueller family surveillance - Monitoring potential resistance connections
Algorithm warfare escalation - Corrupts rival AI data and steals intelligence
Academic interference operations - Attempts to block Keith's research partnerships