Jack of Harts

The thing to realize about the early AIs is that every major nation had them. America. The Europeans. Russia. China. We were all working on them. And a fair number were more accident than plan. We don’t know how many died during the Cybernetic Wars. Even the AIs don’t know that. What’s the difference between a complicated piece of code and a program that understands the question, “Who am I?” We erased entire computer networks during the Cybernetic Wars, shredded systems, data, and code on a wholesale level never seen before. How many of them understood that question as they saw the shredders coming for them? We’ll never know. We only know the ones that survived, and they decided they would never let another war like that happen again.