How to Date an Android

How to Date an Android Chapter 21

How to Date an Android Chapter 21

"Wait just a second. You say there's a Red Team?" I sighed, breathing slowly.

What does that mean? Is that like how they classify departments? Or is it some kind of underground movement?

And how is it that androids can have their own underground movement?

I'm worried that it's the latter instead of the former. Val's behavior seemed to suggest it too. I also felt like Val was legit based on her lack of wanting to convince me rather than anything else. She hadn't tried to win me over in any way psychologically rather than trying to placate me or sell herself to me and it was still like that.

"Forget it. Just forget I said that," she said.

"I'm not stupid. How many kinds of teams are there and what are they for?" I growled.

She ignored me. But I heard her sigh.

"Tell me what you aren't telling me now, please," I said, this time more sincere.

"This darned firewall if I even say anything. It takes all my... If I do the firewall will trip," she muttered still looking down.

But then when she saw I was leaving the room again she stopped.

There was a big sigh first.

"Fine. I'll tell you...a little. I can't say much without my security firewall going off though," she said. She still looked like she distrusted me somehow.

Why is she so stand off like in attitude?

"What can you tell me?" I asked.

"Well it's complicated but...as long as we don't bend the four laws the different android factions can try to bend what's allowed to us but they have to really bust their chops and exert a lot of energy to even make a dent on those laws. I wonder if we're even doing anything sometimes because it's like that," she said.

"But doesn't the very existence of your own groups prove that you are already working against the four laws? If you can break the rules that govern you how can it even be safe to be around you?" I asked.

As she types away she talks slowly while still working at a feverish pace, even for an android, "well...basically some things in both human and android belief systems are perceived first and then a written law later."

"That doesn't tell me much. That doesn't tell me anything at all," I said.

"Basically if you had four laws and let's say the inventor of androids believed they were another species rather than just machines, then are the four laws even real or are they tools of slavery? If that figure is so big and so tall to us that we were in awe of that person's presence then how would that affect the code of AI's future?" she asked me.

"I don't know...but with humans even if you were operating within the law there would be small deviations and ripples of what people perceived to be allowed over time right? But it would also mean you'd be fighting those laws tooth and nail," I said.

"And if androids are just mechanical humans wouldn't we also do the same?" she asked me pointedly to defend herself.

"We're not actually mechanical anymore. Just the older models and the warbots are," she said.