“The clouds covered the sky, and the sun was choked off permanently. Solar power was but a memory, and an advanced society had depleted most other fuel sources. Surely now the machines would surrender.”

“Bio-electric, thermal, kinetic. All could be harnessed. Everything about the human body was built to extrude power, and they could be grown so easily.”

Didn’t think I would live long enough to see the Matrix become a plausible future.

“today’s general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist” … “as a profitable venture”

The closer I looked into the details of this story the more unclear the future of the lab became.