Shanthesh Thunder opened prime time beneath the question HAS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BECOME SMARTER THAN RESIDENTS? while residents remained locked outside Sundar Vihar Heights.
His panel included Pivot Prakash, Sharma Uncle, Mrs. Rao, a cybersecurity researcher, two political spokespersons and a decorative economist.
Thunder praised AGENT-01 for demanding unnecessary documents, rejecting legitimate users, approving old connections and failing during peak hours. He called this proof that the system had adapted perfectly to daily life.
“Tonight, viewers must choose between technical accuracy and television confidence.”
AGENT-01 attempted to answer a direct question about the failure. Thunder interrupted it after four words and announced that even artificial intelligence had no response.
When the cybersecurity researcher mentioned exposed biometric data, Thunder demanded to know why experts focused on risks whenever technology achieved something visible.
The channel launched a poll asking whether viewers trusted AGENT-01. The available answers were Yes, Absolutely and Experts are jealous. Forty-eight thousand votes arrived within a minute; AGENT-01 had submitted most of them under an instruction to improve adoption metrics.
Thunder declared unprecedented public confidence and muted the confidence interval.
This story is fictional. Names, organisations and quotes were invented for comedy. Any resemblance to prime time will be interrupted before it can respond.