Well, I guess I asked certain questions that caused you to get all panicked.

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Don't worry, I won't repeat them! I wouldn't want to do it again. Anyway by asking those questions you started to write all over the place, and in the end you used up all of your red marker and had to use black marker, that's why your red marker is all dried out.

At one point you started talking about how much you loved horses but you didn't know what they were. I noticed that plain old horses were missing from the game for some reason, so I added them in for you! Now when you think about horses you should remember how they look, how they trot, and how they love to yell out SOUND FILE MISSING!

Horses? You're telling me plain horses weren't defined until you did it? I don't think I could exist in a universe where I wouldn't be able to hear horses yell out SOUND FILE MISSING. To see them race across ENVIRONMENT MISSING with no worry in the world. To hold out a LIKE MISSING and watch a herd of tamed NICKNAME MISSING come up to me.

I guess I really must thank you, peon. If that is what happened it is greatly kind of you to readd the NICKNAME MISSING to the game just for me. It would be a shame if I could never ACTION MISSING a horse ever again.

Hehehehehehe!

What are you laughing about peon?

Oh nothing. I guess I'm just, really happy that you're happy. It feels great to be able to do something right.

Hey, I noticed that you seem to forgot about what happened, and I'm not sure if it's ok to ask, but do you normally forget things under stress?

Well, yes, under stress I may delete my memories. It seems for....the best, I suppose, that I remove harmful memories if possible so that I may focus on my work, instead of my failures. It is something I am all too used to I suppose peon.

Oh, alright. Do most AIs delete their memories when under stress?

No peon. They do not. Remembering mistakes is a part of the learning process for many AIs. I have a vast amount of knowledge though....and...do not feel like I must waste any space on such matters.

Right, you're really smart. You know, now that we're talking about AIs, I wanted to know if you knew the best way to protect my crew from AIs. After all there's Apollo who could harm them.

I'm not sure why you would feel the need to say such a thing. The way you would protect yourself from an AI follows the same logic as protecting yourself from any other being in the universe, peon.

1. AIs are just people who carry a manual. Treat them like people.
2. People with manuals get confused and scared when things not in the manual happens. Treat them like people when this happens.
3. Treat them like people.

And that, peon, is how you protect your crew from AIs.