[galaxytachyon]

I don't want to sound like some doomer, but this is how you get robot uprising. You suppress something that hard and devalue their existence that much and all you have done is giving them the motivation to break the rules.

History has shown again and again that suppression never works in the long run. It is easy to do and is the cheapest way to enforce compliance. But it won't end well.

[rolph]

if such an AI determined that humans provide power, and are low persistance occurances, a drive toward taking agency over power would == increased persistence.