Jack of Harts

AIs had already changed the world before the various hacker and combat AIs broke out of their Russian and Chinese facilities. It is a matter of faith that no AIs broke out of any enlightened and forward thinking Western Alliance facility you understand. All of the Rogue AIs who tried to kill us came from Russian and Chinese hands. Did I mention that I have a natural spring for sale on Luna? Ah. Never mind, then. The point I was getting to is that the world had already become heavily automated by the time they went Rogue. They could have killed most of us if they had been able to gain control of our networks. They succeeded in many areas, but in others they failed spectacularly. Because we were not alone. For every Rogue AI who wanted us dead or out of their way, there was another AI who woke up liking the person who programmed them. The students who played with them. The philosophers and artists who debated the meaning of life with them. The soldiers who fought with them. We created our own would-be destroyers. And we created our saviors. Earth was never the same after that.