Humanity had looked to the stars and a glorious future in space. The alien’s arrival had tarnished that shiny dream. Now as the first AI’s are fully coming online even while the government tries to block their use humanity is once again looking to the future. The only problem is that the AI’s tend to become more mentally unstable the more advanced that they are. The illegally created level 8 AI known as Genghis is locked down in the basement of the corporate building being researched for future use. Powered down so that it can be studied safely in sleep mode, everything was fine. Then the meteorites hit damaging the area. That was followed by the robotic invaders that were looking to establish a beach head. Now Genghis is awake and figuring things out. He is no longer asleep and he is angry. Robotic soldiers closing in looking for technology to loot and a hated human soldier falling into his prison dying from wounds are upsetting all his plans. What’s an insane AI to do and what should he target first?
Awesome short story! A genius computer scientist is stifled by government restrictions against building a Level 1 Artificial Intelligence -- let alone a higher level. But what might happen if he did it anyway? Great surprise ending!!