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Call transcript:

>Police Department.
>A man is trying to break in my door. I don’t know who he is. He said, ‘let me in.’
>He’s doing what?
>He’s trying to break in my door!
>What’s your address?
>[redacted]
>What’s your name, ma’m?
>Karen [redacted].
>Karen, I want you to stay on the telephone, okay?
>Okay.
>Where are you now?
>I locked the front door and I’m upstairs in the bedroom.
>Is there anyone with you?
>No, just my baby.
>Karen, are you still there?
>He’s in the house! He broke through the door!
>He broke in—Karen, are you still there?
>Uh-huh.
>Shut the bedroom door. Lock it if you can and come right back to the phone.
>He’s at the door!
>What?
>He’s at the door! He’s here! He’s here!
>Are you still with me?
>Uh-huh.
>Tell him you’ve got the police on the phone.
>I’ve got the police on the phone. Who are you? Why are you here?
>He’s in the bedroom with her.
>I’ve got the police on the phone! I’ve got the police on the phone! Why are you here? Why are you here? Why!? Why!?
>Karen? … Karen?

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This is Season X. Our anthology season where we bring you a new case each episode. We'll return to this season occasionally to bring you more 1-off stories.

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This story is about an artificial intelligence chatbot named LaMDA and the Google engineer who thinks it has become sentient.

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Emmanuel Witzthum, The Symphonic Garden Piece 2
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Augusta Treverorum, Nightmares
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20Six Hundred, Cimmerian Shade/Last Moments
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Sources:

https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/scientific-data-and-religious-opinions-ff9b0938fc10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience

https://www.deseret.com/2022/6/13/23165797/blake-lemoine-google-sentient-artificial-intelligence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

Today’s guest is Brandon Hall. He's a 911 dispatcher with over two decades of experience. He'll help us decide if our mystery call is real or fake.
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Part 1-of-2.

Inside the Fletcher family home, there was a deep, dark secret. A secret that was rotting on their living room couch. And that was their daughter. And only child. Lacey Ellen Fletcher.

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Part 2-of-2.

"House of Pain"

How could otherwise seemingly normal parents subject their daughter to such prolonged and unimaginable torture? Let's search for an answer.

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