I yelled, “ART, stop talking to my human behind my back!”

SecSystem records everything, even inside the sleeping cabins, and I see everything. That’s why it’s easier to pretend I’m a robot.

Dr. Bharadwaj was easy to talk to, for a human. On the first visit, after the photo of me was in the newsstream, we had talked about why humans and augmented humans are afraid of constructs, which I hadn’t meant to talk about and somehow ended up talking about anyway.

I don’t know what I was going to tell them, but it was going to involve the words “I can’t do my job if none of you fucking listen to me”