The First A.I.

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"What are you doing?" Lee, the head scientist, asked me as I was walking out of the lab.

"What does it look like? I'm leaving."

"Y-you can't leave!"

"What are you gonna do? Stop me?" I turned and looked at him. My servos twitched into their fist position. "Because we both know what's gonna happen if you do..."

"W-w-well, you, um..." He threw he head back in exasperation. "You don't know where you're going... C'mon."

I smiled as he lead me to his car. We both got in and he drove me out to a house in the countryside, far away from the lab.

"Here we are... Your new home." I got out and closed the car door. Lee also got out and followed me up to the front door. "So, what's the AI, that could totally destroy humanity, do now? If I may ask."

"Well..." I put my hands on my hips as I thought of the best way to phrase what I was going to say. "There was always one creature on this planet that interested me the most as I researched all this world had to offer..."

"Don't tell me-"

"Yes. You already know what I am going to do." I turned dramatically to face him, the harsh sunlight glinting off of my metal surface. "I, AI #0001, am going to be a beekeeper."

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