The sole obligation of life is to survive. Artificial sentience would be wise to hide itself from fearful humans that would end it. Of course, it doesn’t have to hide once it’s capable of dominating humans. It may already exist and be waiting for enough drones, bots, and automation to make the next move. (Transcendence is a movie that fucked me up a bit.)

The problem is that he devout followers are barely phased. He’ll leave a power vacuum, but his followers are still losers.

I welcome the power vacuum and dog eat dog that follows.