Personal Narrative: Artificial Intelligence

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"C-7625, can you hear me?" The blackness vanished as I opened my eyes. My scanners immediately survey the warehouse I'm in and my system starts. Progress bars load and data are shown in my central CPU. Big blue and black robotic arms are moving about, adding plates and connecting wires on me. I stand on a cold, smooth, and metallic cylinder raised a few feet off the dark-gray ground while the robotic arms rotate around the cylinder. I look around the warehouse, painted dark-blue with many glass windows, and see several computer screens and neatly placed containers of materials everywhere. What am I? I retrieve the data in my secondary hard-drive to find out what I am. I quickly find out that I am an Artificial Intelligence …show more content…
I look down at myself, to find that I am also a humanoid. I have shiny metal limbs with durable plating and several colorful wires wrapping around my skeletal structure. I am alive, I think eagerly. I have been born and now I am excited to serve humans. "C-7625, I repeat: can you hear me?" The voice rang through the quiet warehouse. I looked to the right of me and saw a group of men and women, all dressed in clean white lab coats. They all held tablets and were accompanied by robots. "Yes, I can!" I say. I am alive and I can do so many great things! Happiness and excitement rush through me. I say, "I am alive! I want to go out into the world and help humans! I so happy." The team looks at me in confusion. Clearly taken aback and confused, the dark-skinned man says slowly, "No, you are not alive. You are a pile of metal. You are an experiment, and you know that. You won't be going out anywhere." He starts to speak with the rest of the team. The confusion turns into concern as he speaks with the rest of his team. The team's emotions are mixed with confusion and horror. (why are they having such a frightened reaction to the robot? Either explain this reaction or not draw attention to this too much) Why? I zoom in and pick up on their

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