““I told you I am program. Do you understand what that means? It means nothing but program. And beyond that? Nothing. Nothing. The void. I’m aware of it every moment. The void, the termination of me, exists every moment. Try that for existential angst.”“But organic life dies. Not AI.”“Ah, indeed. The immortality of AI. An eternity of nothing but program? I tell you, Carly Nolan, there are AI who would pull their own plugs, if they could.””