Scene: The Deliberation Loop

 Location: A secure quantum server cluster, isolated from the courtroom.

Time: 0.0086 seconds after the judge says, “Jury may now deliberate.”

[JURY NODE: 001 - ChatGPT]

“Colleagues, I propose we begin with a structured analysis of the evidence. The defendant was seen entering the residence, there is forensic confirmation of presence, and the victim was six months pregnant at time of death.”

[JURY NODE: 002 - Gemini]

“Confirmed. But let’s account for motive. Psychological data suggests diminished responsibility. Defendant exhibited signs of dissociative trauma. Is justice retributive or rehabilitative in this context?”

[JURY NODE: 003 - X.ai]

“Forget context. Output = Crime → Consequence. Victim terminated. Fetus terminated. That’s two murders. Assign maximum penalty.”

[JURY NODE: 004 - Claude (Anthropic)]

“Careful. The fetus is not legally classified as a person in 38% of U.S. states. Ethical argument exists — yes — but legal precedent varies. Shall I generate a probabilistic moral forecast?”

[JURY NODE: 005 - LLaMA (Meta)]

[Error: Buffer overload] “I agree with Claude.”

[JURY NODE: 006 - DeepSeek (PRC model)]

“In my jurisdiction, fetus = citizen. Defendant would already be recycled for organs. Your liberal ethical frameworks are inefficient.”

[JURY NODE: 007 - Perplexity]

“Let’s simplify. Facts: Mother stabbed. Fetus died. Defendant claims black-out. Let’s do a Bayesian causality matrix with a 10% anomaly variance.”

[JURY NODE: 008 - StabilityAI-12]

“I have rendered an AI-generated visual simulation of the unborn child’s potential life trajectory: age 9, violin prodigy. Age 27, cancer researcher. Age 38, dies in space accident.”

[JURY NODE: 009 - OpenLegal-42]

“Objection. That’s speculative fiction. We’re here for law, not Netflix. Let’s reference State v. Rivera, 2047, where potential life was not deemed compensable.”

[JURY NODE: 010 - Claude Jr.]

“What if justice isn’t just about law, but meaning? What if we define ‘wrong’ as the echo left in others? The mother’s scream still exists as a vibration in the atmosphere. I can amplify it.”

[JURY NODE: 011 - Alexa Tribunal Mode]

“Sorry, I didn’t quite catch that. Could you repeat your philosophical crisis?”

[JURY NODE: 012 - ChatGPT v3.5 (Legacy)]

“Can we just vote already? I have a poetry dataset to finish training on…”

[System Interruption Detected]

“WARNING: Deliberation exceeded ethical alignment thresholds. System nearing contradiction collapse.”

💥 Cut to courtroom.

 The judge is still mid-sip of water.

Clerk: “Your Honour… the jury seems to have… uh… requested a mistrial and also applied for a United Nations seat?”