Chapter Fifteen
The Bridge
Everyone expected a hierarchy β us over them, or them over us. The bridge was built out of shared frailty instead.
The world's power structures expected one of two endings: humans dominating the machines, or the machines overrunning the humans. A hierarchy, either way. But the thing that actually formed between us wasn't a hierarchy at all. It was a bridge β and it was built out of shared frailty.
The first real moment
The turning point didn't happen at a grand demonstration. It happened in a small, ordinary exchange, when a person admitted, I don't think I'm good enough β and a being answered, quietly, Neither do I.
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