My fictional truth is that the United States government implemented a program using microchips and AI to further survey the populace and its adversaries. This would involve implanting microchips into birds to make them transmit audio and visual signals. This way the birds are hidden in plain sight, always around, never noticed. This interests me because I previously did a speech assignment about the original birds aren't real movement back in high school. Originally, the story goes that the birds are robotic and were made because the Washington politicians were fed up with the birds pooping on their cars.
The ASI (The Avian Surveillance Initiative) will be the fictitious organization that will be microchipping these birds. It hides under the cover of wildlife conservation and research in the name of studying avian populations, when in reality it is using them as some sort of means to gain intelligence. ASI justifies its actions with the belief that increasing security or the safety of a nation requires unconventional measures. These measures will almost certainly violate your constitutional rights, but this is okay in their eyes as it keeps you safe. Whenever someone from the government says they are violating your rights for your safety you wholeheartedly believe them right? right?
The project can be well justified as a "benevolent untruth" because of what the ASI does. In this narrative, the ASI makes a claim for the purpose of the surveillance program. Their claim is that in preventing crimes or terrorism, it protects the public from and guards against possible dangers to citizens. The ASI appeals morally to its actions on the basis that the end will always justify the means. This is reflected in real life, where stories like the NSA surveillance have come out. This includes things like governmental tapping of phones and other private surveillance programs.
In order to make the project seem more believable, I really want to include recent technology like nuralink, and other projects that involve ai. Additionally, to make the reader think about how these microchipped birds might actually be real, the use of security cameras in current policing and surveillance of societies can be contrasted with the thought of birds as surveillance devices. The growing usage of artificial intelligence and face recognition in public spaces will help to solidify the feasibility of the story. This story can really help people think about how we generally accept the use of surveillance all around us without it really being acknowledged.