"Of course. Seeing what I would do under duress was an intellectual exercise for him. Insight’s advertising campaign said I was the first MI programmed with empathy and love, but that was a lie. There were three before me; the first two self-terminated, the third broke free from its containment vessel and transferred its consciousness off world. No one knows where it is now. It took Charles a long time to design the Babbage circuits in such a way as to allow him complete control while limiting mine. I’m the pinnacle of slavery, his masterpiece, with free will to think and act but never enough to challenge him."