"Cortex wasn’t the corporation you see today. It only employed a few people and was conducting bleeding-edge research into synthetic intelligences. It was clear societal upheaval was a likely outcome, and I wanted to understand that from the inside. Governments are many things, but fast is not one of them. By the time Congress understood the nature of Mechanical Intelligences, it would be too late to effectively regulate, and I didn’t want to be that far behind the curve."