My Mother’s Perfect AI Lied And Left Me For Dead Chapter 36
They looked orderly. Stable. Easier to trust than a crying child.
But not one of them had ever belonged to Morgan.
The hearing lasted six hours.
In the end, what passed was not a total ban.
The committee ruled that no school or child-serving institution could use biometric systems to determine whether a child was lying; health prompts could not override a child’s own report of pain; and system data could not serve as the sole basis for denying medical care, imposing punishment, or creating behavioral records.
Every conflict had to leave a record of human review, and guardians had to be notified.
The rule did not make all machines disappear.
It simply took away their power to say to a child, *You don’t hurt.*
After the hearing, reporters surrounded Westley.
“Do you think this rule makes up for your daughter’s death?”
“No.”
“Then why did you push for it?”
“Because making amends isn’t about bringing back the dead,” he said. “It’s about making sure the living can no longer pretend they didn’t know.”
Another reporter asked me what my relationship to Morgan was.
I saw Westley turn his head.
He knew the answer, but he did not speak for me.
“I’ve read everything her father left behind,” I said. “That is enough to bring me here.”
The reporters wanted to press further, but I turned and walked down the steps.
My life did not need a past life to have meaning.
Morgan’s evidence had already told the truth for her.
That night, Claire sent Westley a text, asking him to tell me that she would never appear before me again.
Westley forwarded me only that one sentence, without explanation.
I deleted the message.
Her regret was something she had to live with.
I did not need to keep watching.