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\u2019t know how many died during the Cybernetic Wars. Even the AIs don\u2019t know that. What\u2019s the difference between a complicated piece of code and a program that understands the question, \u201cWho am I?\u201d 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\u2019ll never know. We only know the ones that survived, and they decided they would never let another war like that happen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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