“ART said,
What does it want?To kill all the humans, I answered.
I could feel ART metaphorically clutch its function. If there were no humans, there would be no crew to protect and no reason to do research and fill its databases. It said,
That is irrational.I know, I said,
if the humans were dead, who would make the media? It was so outrageous, it sounded like something a human would say.”
―
Martha Wells,
Artificial Condition
