<blockquote>“Okay, it’s a robot, but it’s just programmed to turn itself off again?” the boy asks. “How is that different?”
The inventor straightens up, smiles broadly. “It’s a fully functional, self-aware AI,” he says. “It isn’t programmed to turn itself off, it chooses to because I programmed it to be in a constant state of existential terror!”
The boy looks up at his father. “That’s kind of awful,” he says.</blockquote>
