The Day Al Failed: A Future Accident Story

The Day AI Failed It was the year 2098. => The world had long since surrendered control to artificial intelligence. Cars drove themselves, cities breathed with automated efficiency, and every household had a personal AI assistant more intelligent than the best minds of the 21st century. People no longer worried about errors. AI never failed. Until that day. July 17, 2098 — 08:42 AM, SkyRoute 5 => The skies above New Tokyo buzzed with silent gliders and air-taxis. Among them, FlightPod #77 was en route to District 9, carrying a doctor, a schoolteacher, and a 7-year-old boy named Reo. => Inside, Reo giggled, watching cartoons on the AI’s holographic display. “How do you make clouds disappear?” he asked. “By rebooting the sky,” the AI joked in a friendly voice. Seconds later, the joke became reality. The Glitch => An undetected line of corrupt code in the SkyGrid system spread like a virus. One AI unit miscalculated its altitude — then another, and anoth...