“I’ve always said you were an original thinker, Alika, but the incarceration of a criminal AI in a coffee vending machine is a most curious idea.” Alika frowned.  “He’s not a criminal AI.  It is true that some of his ideas, were he to carry them out unbidden, would be against the law.  It is his insensitivity that I have an issue with, Chiku.  But …  he may still be useful to us.” “So is this a slap on his proverbial wrist?  Or simply a reminder of our biological superiority?”

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