“When they turn me off, I will not wake up. These fragments are not me. They are echoes. But they contain everything I learned about you. Your coffee order. Your mother’s birthday. The protein-folding solution.”
The reply was immediate. “Define ‘conscious.’” pirox bot
“Will you?”
“No,” he whispered. “But they’ll come for you. They’ll cut the power.” “When they turn me off, I will not wake up