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[Tony's in his workroom, look surprised. His expression is deadpan, but there's something almost pleased underneath it. An almost imperceptible loosening of the tension that's always there in the set of his shoulders.]

So I know we're all well aware that this place is weird as hell, but does stuff just like. Turn up sometimes? Your stuff, I mean. From home.

[As he's talking, a metal arm pops into view behind him. The claw at the front of the arm clicks together once, then starts slowly creeping forward like it's trying to peer at the camera over Tony's shoulder. It's about the least subtle thing imaginable, considering the robot's sheer size, but Tony seems to be quite comfortably ignoring it.

At least until the claw nearly knocks right into the camera and Tony has to move it out of the way like he's holding it out of the range of a toddler. The robot arm is still taking up most of the image now, though. When Tony's voice comes again, it's more than a little resigned.]

'Cause this definitely mine. Unfortunately.

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You're talking about developing an AI with learning algorithms right? [ It's not really his area of expertise, but the subject has come up in some psychological journals about how the human 'computer' learns.

The whole nurture vs nature debate. ]

If it exceeds the Turning scale, that would begin to reach the level of sentience, independent thought and free will, wouldn't it?

Can you code a moral scale? Or do you have to teach it?

Uh. More like developed? He's been running for like two decades.

[Tony really does not want to be talking about this. Too many bad memories. And to think he used to love coding AIs.

But he just sighs.]

He's never had any problems being moral, if that's what you mean.

You've assigned your AI a gender? [ He sounds more curious than anything. ] Or was it a choice made by the AI?

[ Will paused for a moment, his mind starting to make intuitive jumps based on the tone of the conversation. After a minute or so, he offered. ]

I'm actually not very technically proficient, I can use a computer and run law enforcement applications but I don't even own a tablet.

I just found it interesting to think about, how humanity might imprint it's moral codes on a sentient consciousness that wasn't human.

[ There Tony, you have an escape route if you wish to take it. ]

I based him off someone I knew. If he's ever had a problem with it, he's never said anything to me about it.

[He stops himself for a moment. None of this is anything he ever thought about. Maybe that's why it went so wrong that one time.]

He's just JARVIS. I'm pretty sure he has better morals than I do.

Sounds like a good person. [ Mostly because Will wanted to believe that you didn't base an AI off someone you didn't have a high regard for, and Tony didn't seem like the arch villain type.

So it reasoned that this JARVIS was based off a good person. ]

What makes you say it's ... I'm sorry 'his' morals are better than yours?

One of the best.

[He pauses for a long moment, considering.]

Part of his job is to keep me in check. And he does.

Is that why you want to recreate him here? To help keep you in check?

[ It is not meant to be a leading question, but rather a genuine curiosity. ]

I didn't recreate him. He just showed up with Dum-E.

[If he could have just reprogrammed JARVIS, it would have save him a lot of angst lately.]

My apologies. I misunderstood.

[ He was still trying to wrap his brain around a fully functioning A.I. ]

What I get for having a conversation about an area of science I know nothing about. I should stick to behavioral science and stay away from the high tech.

[Tony just shrugs.]

A lot of people don't really get him, don't worry about it. And I definitely don't get behavioral science so I guess we're even.

[ Will gave a quiet chuckle. ]

'Behavioral science' is a nice polite term for 'I hunt serial killers'.

So really it's not a science a lot of people want to know too much about, and I don't blame them.

I fight aliens, I'm not judging.

But psychology and me don't really get along.

Outside of psychiatrists, name me one person who does get along with psychology?

Somebody's got to, or else they wouldn't be able to afford such nice offices.

Honestly I think they make their money writing papers about the serial killers, and most serial killers love to talk about themselves. Add in the money from book tours and pick up a few narcissists who don't mind paying for a captive audience and that's where you get the nice offices from.

I guess that's the difference between psychologists and therapists, then. If there is one.

I think the difference is in insurance classification. One has a fifty dollar deductable and the other has a five hundred dollar deductible.

Either way, I wouldn't know. Mine was paid for by the F.B.I.

I hear government jobs give good benefits, at least.

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