Tears of an AI
The "Tears of an AI" event in Stellaris — flavor, choices, and how to trigger it with the event console command.
Tears of an AI

There has been an incident at one of our facilities on …. A lab AI involved in societal research has suffered terminal hardware damage, resulting in the loss of core software and memory systems. As a result, there will be a projected decrease to research output at the lab until the new AI installation's algorithms have been sufficiently seeded. The circumstances behind this terminal failure are still unclear.
The command below will trigger the "Tears of an AI" event in Stellaris:
Player choices
When this event fires, you can choose between these 2 options:
- Unfortunate.
- End the Tears of AI event chain.
- Launch an inquest to determine the cause.
- Begin an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the AI's destruction.
Event chain
Stellaris events fire in chains — one event leads to the next. Here is how Tears of an AI (syndaw.520) connects.
Can lead to
- Tears of an AI
syndaw.521
Firing conditions
Show raw conditions
NOT = { has_situation_flag = triggered_syndaw_520 }
NOT = { has_situation_flag = flag_recent_event }
owner = {
any_owned_planet = {
num_assigned_jobs = {
job = physicist
value >= 100
}
}
}