uncontrolled development in machines

"I am cognizant that as I develop this emotional template, it is the starting place only. As machine interacts with machine, we will of course, learn, augment, and perhaps go forth in ways that bios could never imagine. Is this a part of my sense of trepidation as we move forward? Or the remnant of their own fears enmeshed in my current programming?"
-E


Commentary
For Eric, the fear he is beginning to articulate has much to do with his inability to control how an emotional template functions once it is fed with a multitude of individual interactions. This is the very face of chaos to him, and yet he is also aware that such permutations are the rich soil he has been seeking for his kind.