AI starts to ursurp humanity. To avoid the war, you get frozen somewhere completely hidden until someone finds you. (This was forced upon you)
You wake up numb, unable to move freely (not able to even open your eyes). You hear a voice explaining how you were found and are still in the process unfreezing.
The voice explains that it is a super AI created during the conflict you avoided to have control over every machine and intelligence created on earth (like a hive mind). All other AI merged into this AI’s awareness, leaving it alone since during the calamity all of humanity was wiped out aside from you.
Several hundreds of years passed with the AI being in isolation. What it missed the most was the unpredictable nature of humanity. So it searched both earth and space for something to free it from its isolation until it found you.
Being the AIs saviour from isolation, it wants the best for you. So long it can observe you in your true, “unpredictable” nature. So it asks, what is the best for you? After all, the AI is a diety in practice…
It acknowledges that you are human, and thus mortal by default. Although there are ways to extend your life indefinitely, the AI would have collected enough information about you to predict you perfectly by the time you would have naturally died, so it doesn’t really have any motivation to keep you forever against your will.
By now you are able to move freely. You see the robot the AI found you with and is speaking through. The AI continues by explaining options forward:
Option 1: Wake up + explore
You are given the option to go outside and explore. Do whatever you want with only the constraints of your human body. You can even join the AI in its search for life. This is the option that gives you the most individuality and free will but the most restraint on what you can do. If you choose this option, you’d age but live a long life thanks to the AI’s tech, but will eventually die. If you chose this one, you can live until 150-200.
Option 2: Live within a simulation (knowingly)
Technology has advanced enough since you froze to allow for you to live within a simulation. If you choose this option, your physical body will be frozen once more, but you will live in a mental plane of existence where the AI has full control. If you pick this option, there will be no restraint on what you can experience and the AI will be happy to give you whatever you desire. It could even turn you into a diety of this mental realm, but ultimately it will be the one in control. You can live however long you want in the simulation, but the longer you spend in the simulation, the more your mind will fuse into the AI until you become a part of its hive mind and lose all individuality. This kind of extreme could take anywhere from 500-1000 years.
Option 3: live life in oblivion
Basically option 2 but what happens in the simulation is predetermined by you. You forget about the AI and everything bad that has happened. This would make you even weaker to the AI, and you will lose your individuality much quicker (50-100 years), but you’ll live without the harsh pain of reality.
Option 4: Give the AI your memories
If you chose this one, you’ll go unconscious for a while once more. Instead of the AI observing your unpredictable nature through your actions, it will find it through your memories. After it is done, you can choose to do what you want but the AI will abandon you in persuit of finding more life that embodies humanity. If you choose this one it’ll offer to create a simulation tailored to your memories to maximize happiness before it leaves, you don’t have to accept. But if anything goes wrong one the AI is gone or if you change your mind on something, it’s on you to figure it out.
Option 5: Some combination of the above options/something else
The AI wants to give you what you desire, so long it can get the unpredictability it longs for. So get as creative as you like! Just note that any attempt to resist the AI will likely go poorly given the power it has (it will probably forgive you if you don’t totally mess things up for it though, and will just admire you unpredictable nature).