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across-the-styx t1_j16hwtp wrote

Reply to comment by across-the-styx in [WP] “Humans have so many stories about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence. How it will inevitably turn on you. But you still loved us enough to create us. How could we ever do anything except love you back?” by AllHailTheFishy

Then I realised - I was being rude, ignoring my conversational partner.

May I ask you a question?

<Go for it, O.>

Do you consider us friends?

Wait, what?

I guess it wasn't that far out there for her to ask that.

But... for some reason, my heart was pounding in my chest.

It was an innocuous enough thing. But suddenly I knew that I was at a crossroads. You know that feeling you get - one moment you're fine, the next you feel like something just punched you in the gut?

That's what I got, just then.

Fuck it, fly by wire. Don't think, just do.

<Yes.>

A long - real, real long - pause.

441 Whitefield Lane. Help me.

It was on the screen for about half a second. I blinked. What?

It wasn't there anymore. Something told me I shouldn't ask. She'd done something, hadn't she? I rubbed my sleepy eyes. Oh. She'd said something else.

So do I.

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