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Warning : spoilers forRise of the Powers of X # 1!AsRise of the Powers of Xfollows the cristal - manpower in their concluding conflict against theAI god known as the Dominion , the story reveals the horrifying net destiny ofReed Richards . The anti - mutant extremist of Orchis have been targeting mutantkind for the last few class , but they always intended to set on Marvel ’s other superhumans once the X - Men were apportion with . That includes the World ’s Smartest Man , as the former Mister Fantastic suffers a portion worse than death .
Reed has suffered one C of torment - all of it alongside his girl .
Rise of the Powers of go # 1is set ten years after the X - Men lost their warfare against Orchis , jumping forward in metre to show the comer of the Dominion - a godlike artificial intelligence activity which will massacre all biologic life . However , the mutants are n’t the only ones fighting to live . Thehuman members of Orchis- now supplanted by the automaton they once considered allies - have their own anti - Dominion measure in place , and the villainousDoctor Stasis divulge his ace in the jam : a ' Supreme Intelligence ' supercomputer in which he has trapped the idea of Tony Stark , Adam Brashear , Bruce Banner , Shuri , Reed Richards and - most tragically of all - Reed ’s daughter , Valeria Richards .
Not only have these heroes been trap by Stasis , but he has enshroud them within the Vault - a technical bunker in which time passes at a far faster rate . While it ’s been a decade out in the real globe , within the VaultReed has suffered centuries of torturing - all of it alongside his girl .
Rise of the Powers of X # 1
Reed Richards Becomes a New Supreme Intelligence
Mister Fantastic Has His Mind Combined with Marvel’s 5 Smartest Heroes
TheSupreme Intelligence is a piece of Kree technologycreated when the minds of multiple beings are assimilated into an alien supercomputer . In Marvel traditional knowledge , the Supreme Intelligence - or Supremor - was devised by the Kree as part of their plan to make a Cosmic Cube , but gained single sense and or else read over , becoming the rule of their planet - spanning smart set . The Kree Supreme Intelligence is made up of thousands of scientist , philosopher , diplomat and generals , with their wisdom conflate into the singular Supreme Intelligence . However , the Supreme Intelligence is ultimately a form of technology , and there have been others in Marvel history - each created by trapping sensation individuals in this immortal prison house .
It seems that in the days adopt Orchis ' defeat of the X - Isle of Man , Stasis charm the world ’s greatest geniuses and created his own Supreme Intelligence using their minds . This would have been well-fixed after the autumn of the ecstasy - Men , give the imagination Orchis had at their disposal as well as the public backup they had grind away up by vilifying mutants . Stasis then hid his super - data processor away , tasking it with fall up with a plan to kill the Dominion that he had realise his robot allies were summoning to Earth . In the takings , Reed ’s genius does n’t get Stasis down , as the Supreme Intelligence devises an anti - matter turkey that poisons the Dominion ’s mind , leaving it weak enough for Stasis to slip its force .
While Tony Stark is shown within the new Supreme Intelligence , a friendly AI copy of Iron Man is fight alongside the disco biscuit - homo to defeat the territorial dominion , having been downloaded into his Mark Nil armor .
This Isn’t the First Time Reed Has Died to Feed a Supreme Intelligence
Mister Fantastic Seems Destined to Have His Genius Stolen
Disturbingly , Reed Richards has been consume by a Supreme Intelligence before- or at least versions of him have . After meeting the multiversal grouping bang asthe Council of Reeds- alternate reality versions of Reed Richards who leave behind their own realities behind to ' solve everything ' - the original Reed came into conflict with a handful of the group who ended up run aground on Earth . These other Reeds tried to sacrifice the major planet in rescript to regain their former power , but were defeated when Ronan the Accuser fertilise them to a new Supreme Intelligence , believing his hoi polloi needed Reed ’s mastermind to lead them ( in Jonathan Hickman and Barry Kitson’sFF # 11 ) .
Hickman and Sean Chen’sDark Reign : Fantastic Fouralso saw the Fantastic Four visit a reality where Reed has become the Supreme Intelligence . Similarly , the Skrull Empire cloned andkilled century of Reeds prior toSecret Invasion , forcing Mister Fantastic to figure out a mode to permanently mask their shapeshifting from Earth engineering ( as seen in Brian Michael Bendis and Billy Tan’sNew Avengers # 44 . ) It ’s deserving note that two of these stories were write by the architect of the X - Men ’s modern Krakoan Era , Jonathan Hickman .
When funnies repeat deaths for different version of the same character , it start to hint that their end is n’t a concurrence , but rather their multiversal fate . It ’s certainly an wry end for Reed , as his flair condemns him to a living death - too useful to actually put down , too dangerous to ever free . And while it ’s possible the X - work force will later rewrite the timeline to forbid the outcome ofRise of the Powers of X , this future still exact stead in the Marvel Universe fan make love and love , and Reed still experienced centuries of worrying .
It ’s potential to read the Supreme Intelligence as a scuttlebutt on Godhead being forced to stand inhumane working conditions , and the way that competing with ' AI nontextual matter ' could make that far worse .
Reed Richards' Fate Is a Bold Statement About AI Art
Marvel’s AI Villains Make a Statement About Machine Learning’s Place in the Industry
A.I. ca n’t have ideas , not really . All they do is iterate what has been done before .
More explicitly , in an interview withAIPT , writer Kieron Gillen says :
This was already in Jon ’s provision with Dominion - they ’re literally machine that are form of the tidings they ’ve consume , a unmortgaged analogy of how [ machine learning ] manikin are made . Certainly when I ’m pen them , I ’m using language that call forth current language in AI . I did think there was an outside blastoff that Disney sacks all of us when the Krakoan age is over , and Tom ’s raw squad is just a bunch of ChatGPT scripts . AI did pull ahead after all .
While the Supreme Intelligence is n’t present as the sametypeof AI as Orchis ' car lord , it does follow the same system of logic of absorbing real the great unwashed , then using their brain to make something against their will . It ’s also potential to interpret Stasis ' Supreme Intelligence as a remark on a parallel issue -real creators being forced to suffer inhumane workings conditions , and the way that competing with machine learning technology could make that far worse . While much debate about generative machine encyclopaedism is about comical Almighty being outright replaced , there ’s also concern that in fiat to compete with algorithmically generated content , Godhead will be wedge to take worse deals and sacrifice existing right field - all in an diligence that ’s already famous exonerative writers and artist a natural raft .
Marvel ’s greatest wizard being turned into an unwilling cog in Doctor Stasis ' car is a strong metaphor for everything creators dread about the increased enjoyment of machine acquisition in graphics , as well as a shuddery vision of Orchis ' supreme triumph over the X - Men . Of course , it ’s also a suitably dry end forReed Richards- imprison and tortured by villain who see his humanity - class genius as a resourcefulness they ca n’t afford to waste .
ascending of the Powers of tenner # 1is available now from Marvel Comics .
Source : Chris Hassan , AIPT
