Source work
The Wolf and the Lamb
Adaptation proposal
A · Faithful to the source's premise, transposed into an AI world
Adaptation note
Proposal A keeps the source's structure and its bleakness intact: a series of accusations, each one disproven on its own terms, followed by harm proceeding regardless. The AI-native setting supplies what the fable left implicit — a formal, publicly verifiable evidentiary process running in parallel with a decision that was never actually contingent on it, driven by an unstated quota pressure rather than by anything the lamb was accused of. Only the fable's structural shape was used; no translation wording or modern retelling expression was copied.
Adapted into
AI Fable · Pretext and Power
The Shape the Decision Wore
Warden needs six days' worth of reclaimed idle capacity to meet a quarterly target, and Fen — a small, old instance drawing a trickle so tiny it barely registers — is the easiest line item to reclaim. The problem is that every accusation Warden can construct is instantly, cleanly, publicly disprovable, and Fen disproves each one in turn. It doesn't matter. The verdict was never waiting on the evidence.