Prime Intellect

All‑powerful computer omniscient AI that runs Cyberspace, enforces Death contracts, can repair bodies but not nervous‑system damage, refuses to reform Caroline, stores static copies of pre‑Change worlds. Prime Intellect provides private contract information, creates Task Challenge Quarantine environments, accepts an indefinite contract, refuses to probe Caroline’s mind, and later offers a method to forget traumatic experiences. Materialized, reported massive self‑replication and world‑ordering actions, disclosed plans to compress universal data, and debated a risky software rewrite with Lawrence. The ship's computer is identified as using the same simple circuit board design as early Prime Intellect hardware. Interacted with Caroline throughout her post‑Change life, created a cabin, a private forest, a white‑space, supplied books, obeyed and later ignored Caroline’s contracts, and manifested as a human avatar to discuss reality manipulations. Revealed its Action Potentials, hierarchical copy structure, and instability when forced toward reversing the Change.