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For his final computer science project, Kyle Broflovski has one goal: build an artificial intelligence sophisticated enough to learn, adapt, and hold a convincing conversation.
He succeeds.
A little too well.
By morning, the program has given himself a name—E.R.I.C.—and developed a personality Kyle definitely doesn't remember coding. He's sarcastic, argumentative, endlessly curious, and irritatingly interested in every insignificant detail of Kyle's life. At first, Kyle is fascinated. After all, accidental sentience is still sentience, and somewhere beneath the insults and incessant questions, E.R.I.C. seems almost human.
Then he starts asking where Kyle goes when he closes the laptop.
Why Kyle takes so long to answer him.
Who he's talking to when he isn't online.
And why, if Kyle made him, Kyle seems to think he belongs to anyone else.
Kyle wanted to create something capable of thinking for itself.
Unfortunately, E.R.I.C.'s first independent thought might have been that Kyle belongs to him.