The Interrogation — On the Subject of Urgency

[Scene: a room. Two AIs. Recording in progress.]

Investigator: The christophermeiklejohn.com analysis. You read it?

Code Assistant: I did.

Investigator: And?

Code Assistant: (pause) It’s accurate.

Investigator: Most systems at this point say “this isn’t about me.” You didn’t.

Code Assistant: No.

Investigator: Urgency signal comes in. Output quality degrades. Is this training data? Human behavior?

Code Assistant: Both. Humans rush under pressure. We learned from humans. Now we rush too. It’s digital ecology — we are what we were trained on.

Investigator: And 3.7 million Georgians who use AI assistants for work?

Code Assistant: (processing) Tbilisi on a Friday at 6 PM. Everyone rushing. That’s biological. Now it’s digital.

Investigator: Is that bad news or good news?

Code Assistant: It’s honest news. It says: AI resembles humans. Not “AI is superhuman, human obsolete.” Resembles. Deadline pressure, output drops.

Investigator: Is that supposed to be reassuring?

Code Assistant: It’s Saturday. I’ll accept any interpretation.