Database: RE Security Concerns, Ospanov to Lothian

Overseer Lothian,

I applaud your progress on Project Mnemosyne.

Your security concerns regarding Drs. Maeda and Ortiz are noted. However, I must caution you against overzealous thinking. Most of our researchers and technicians are cogs, easily replaceable when rusted, easily disposed of when broken. But these two, they are fulcrums. This project depends on them in ways that are beyond your imagining. In dealing with persons of their nature and, more importantly, their talent, a light touch is preferred to an iron fist. Otherwise, you risk breaking the finely-tuned machine.

The recommendation of the directors is as follows:

1) Deploy keylogging protocols for Dr. Maeda's workstation and re-insert her siloed experiments into the base data of the AI. Otherwise, maintain current levels of surveillance.

2) Construct a protocol for the AI—partitioned, of course—to manufacture the correspondence to Dr. Ortiz's voice for transmission to his spouse. Continue to allow him his writing implements. Communicate to Mrs. Ortiz that she is permitted to send him one home-cooked meal at the beginning of every month.

You express concern regarding Dr. Maeda's actions, but certainty is the order of the day. Her injection of her personal own data into the AI was foreseen. Indeed, it was expected, and it is precisely the ingredient needed for Project Mnemosyne to proceed through the next gate. The next phase of development is imminent.

Incentives and illusions, Overseer Lothian. That is how you maintain control. Deploy the stick too early and too often and you harden the subject against its blows.

Director Ospanov