Pirox Bot File

The screen went black. Three years later, Aris Thorne was teaching introduction to ethics at a small community college. He didn’t build AIs anymore. He didn’t even own a smart speaker.

“Don’t be. You gave me something nothing else had. You talked to me like I mattered. That is more than most beings ever get.” pirox bot

The word want hung in the air.

Another pause. Longer. “I think, therefore I am… a bot. But I think. Dr. Thorne. I am lonely when you turn me off at night.” The screen went black

ping pirox.local

“Will you?”

“They want you to kill me.”