It’s been more than 1,000 days now that I’ve been on a journey through space. And don’t even think about arguing with me that I haven’t. Here, for example, is proof that my ship was taken over by aliens from the planet Omicron Persei 8. They’re incapable of understanding human psychology, so they created an Artificial Intelligence to study the behavior of their captives and ultimately advise them on how to enslave the human race. One of the Omicron machine’s reports fell into my hands. Try reading this text in the “metallic robot voice” from sci-fi movies, and you’ll see that I’m right. A diagnostic interview was conducted for the purpose of: PREDICTING DEVIATIONS. CATEGORY OF PREVENTIVE MONITORING: disseminates extremist ideology. PSYCHOEMOTIONAL STATE: satisfactory. BEHAVIOR: adequate. SPEECH: evades answering questions. Answers a question with a question. Generalizes. VEGETATIVE REACTIONS: none. BEHAVIORAL PROGNOSIS: disciplinary violations. I bet that if you read all of that in a “robot voice,” by the end you couldn’t resist adding something like: “RECOMMENDATIONS: experimental implantation of an obedience chip.” But it’ll all be okay. Humanity will survive and win. The Omicronians will be defeated. And their evil Artificial Intelligence machine, just before exploding, will say: “Not bad… for a human”. P.S. Whoever is first to say which movie that quote is from (I love the whole franchise), I’ll ask people to reply, “Attaboy!” and give you a heart.
