The theme of machines and morality explored in class inspired this piece along with several short stories, novels, and other science fiction media I’ve experienced on my own. The class discussions about nonhuman rights and the machine morality helped me in developing my ideas for how an A.I. like G.O.D. would function and how it would interact with the humans it was made to oversee. I believe this story fits into the Science Fiction genre because of the A.I. narrator, the concept of living forever via technology, and dealing with the concept of morality in machines. A few pieces that inspired this idea were the anime Sword Art Online, the short story “Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer, and the last short story we read for class “The Last
