Finally, I have to thank all the beings that support our world, whether biological or machine, mindless or mindful. The state of A.I. today hasn’t reached the level of the one in this story, but I believe we’re not that far off from such a future. I hope that we, as a society, think seriously about how we’re going to treat humanity’s newest labor force before we discover that, once again, we are the true monsters.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

S.B. DIVYA is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She is the Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated author of Runtime and coeditor of the Escape Pod podcast, with Mur Lafferty. Her short stories have been published in various magazines, and her short story collection, Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Situations, is out now from Hachette India. She holds degrees in computational neuroscience and signal processing, and she worked for twenty years as an electrical engineer before becoming an author. Find out more at sbdivya.com or on Twitter @divyastweets.

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