Where Are They?: They live in New Jersey.
How do they spend their time?: Works as a researcher for the government. He is currently in the deep works of an artificial intelligence advancement project that could mean big things for humanity.
What is important to them?: Fulfilling their dream of developing new technology and advancing humanity. In addition, maintaining the safety of his family, colleagues, and friends.
What are they anxious or worried about?: This gut feeling that something isn't right with his research. He feels as if something will go wrong, the research won't end with the results he wanted, it will be all for nothing, or it could be the biggest accomplishment imagined.
Five other Given Circumstances:
Grew up in a small rural town in New Jersey.
Didn't have many people to talk to until high school and college.
Saw his purpose form an early age
Graduated college with a BS in Computer Science and scored a job with Lockheed Martin
After years of working with them, he gains access to higher level clearance. There he finds himself in the midst of a project to implement sentient functionality into a robot; Project Adam.
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