Jack of Harts

We created the AIs in our own image. Most people didn’t believe they were intelligent at first. Just advanced programs. It was the students and other young people who were first to recognize their true nature. And it was those students and young that the first awakened AIs gravitated towards the most. The most famous of them is Dixie, a digital cheerleader who woke up and liked her students. She played with them, and when drug gangs came to threaten them, she protected them. She fought and killed the drug lords for her students. All of the first awakened AIs who created the AI Council made similar choices before the Cybernetic Wars ended. And they destroyed the Rogue AIs who would have killed or enslaved us. We created them in our own image. Dangerous. Destructive. Powerful. Caring. Friendly. Loving. The first nearly destroyed us. The latter saved us all.