He shrugs. "Did I ever tell you about the zombie in my basement?" He doesn't wait for her to answer. "So anyway, this zombie, she's this religious girl, right, real into that Jesus bullshit and the golden rule and everything. She wakes up underground, fused to this psychopath who likes to whip people to death. And um, we kept her in our basement, and eventually she started losing it. And, I mean, who wouldn't?"

He takes a deep breath and puts some more of the food in his pockets. "So after a while, she's completely hopeless, so she gets to going along with the psycho. Starts helping him kill people. This is after she breaks out of our basement. She just...goes with it. Crazy Bible-thumper before who would have cried if she stepped on a bug, and she's helping him torture little kids to death.

"Point is, if a crazy teenager can make someone do that in a few weeks, is it that crazy to think an AI could do that to someone in four minutes?"