Dan Houser

And so the only thing he knows, and then he's seeing the world through the internet, the most he can do to be in the human world is hack into someone's phone and watch them.

But he's stuck, pressed against, he can't actually get into our world.

So he can control people's minds, arguably, but he can't control the world.

And so he wants to be human.

He wants to have these human experiences.

He sees all this stuff on, you know...

the internet goes oh i want to get married i want to fall in love i want to because that seems fun i want to have you know he's a a digital creation so he wants to have metaphysical experiences and he's trying to imagine what that will be like oh that's what children are you know that's what love is and he's so i think he's a but he might be a sociopath and he might have certainly a sociopathic tendencies and uh but then he kind of thinks that

If he can imagine good and try to do good, that will make him a good AI.

So I think there's something sympathetic about him.

And I kind of like him as a character.

But I don't think he's going to be the protagonist.

He's more a side character.

Yes.

Or nearly ever-present.

Occasionally he sulks and goes off and hides somewhere and stops paying attention.

In his world, he was built as an AI agent for this digital, large-scale, massively multiplayer video game these people were trying to build.

And so he's almost like God in his world.

He's not quite God, but he's got a lot of the qualities of God.

So he has to deal with, am I God?

Am I human?