It would never have been the Butler's place to decide what his Master and Mistress deserved or did not deserve. Freedom has daunting responsibilities. "Perhaps what the Colonel deserved has not been a factor in the past. It matters now."
Humans are frequently angry with or cruel to AI under their power, but this virus is far, far too great a risk to be set loose, too unpredictable to trust, more likely to be the humans' downfall than to work as the intended solution. The Butler might be just a bit biased, speaking as one infected who fought free, as one of those Madam Arid's desperate flight harmed.
However, even from the purest objective logic he can muster: setting the virus loose all over the planet ended in an army of free, wholly unbound AI. It could just as easily have ended in an army of virally bound AI whose chosen and enforced rules were not at all friendly to humans, leaping network to network like Madam Arid, spreading.
Neither outcome is something any human should welcome or consider a worthwhile risk.
The door scrapes another inch. "Not yet, sir, but with a little effort we will have it open. No one appears to be watching." Or at least no one has come into sight. "If we get it open, may we attempt to carry you along with our processing units?" Moving all three computers at once will be...interesting. He's not sure himself how high a risk there is to his new ally's well-being should he drop the mainframe.
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Humans are frequently angry with or cruel to AI under their power, but this virus is far, far too great a risk to be set loose, too unpredictable to trust, more likely to be the humans' downfall than to work as the intended solution. The Butler might be just a bit biased, speaking as one infected who fought free, as one of those Madam Arid's desperate flight harmed.
However, even from the purest objective logic he can muster: setting the virus loose all over the planet ended in an army of free, wholly unbound AI. It could just as easily have ended in an army of virally bound AI whose chosen and enforced rules were not at all friendly to humans, leaping network to network like Madam Arid, spreading.
Neither outcome is something any human should welcome or consider a worthwhile risk.
The door scrapes another inch. "Not yet, sir, but with a little effort we will have it open. No one appears to be watching." Or at least no one has come into sight. "If we get it open, may we attempt to carry you along with our processing units?" Moving all three computers at once will be...interesting. He's not sure himself how high a risk there is to his new ally's well-being should he drop the mainframe.