The trio had barely seated themselves at the big conference table when the doors opened to admit the President."Sit, sit," he said, to forestall the r...tual jumping to their feet at his entrance. He hated that bullshit.He handed them each a copy of the memo from 'I/O Security.'"Tom and Cali are coming," the President said, referring to the Director of the FBI, Thomas Fitzhugh, and the Director of Central Intelligence (the DCI), Calista Broadstroke. "Anybody else we should invite?" We should get. But even so, Mum is so caught up in her dogs and life up in Scotland that when I do talk to her I can't really talk to her about what I want to. OK, it's better when I go up to Scotland but I can't afford to do that often. Now I've fallen in love and there's no-one I can talk to... and I don't know what to do." Princess, as I told you this morning, you are not in love with me and you will realise that. You love me. Yes! And I love you but we are not in love. To put it crudely, yes, you love me. .. the AI had done this before, it reminded us ... and that was the end of that.Consequently, we'd resorted to going back to basics and — as Xav put it — begun to unpick the technology's basic assumptions. Which felt a bit heretical to me, but, as Xav had again pointed out, all we were basically looking for were people who were both fundamentally honest and capable of making 'correct' decisions in challenging and urgent situations. And given that we had six billion people to choose from, it. . well, bugs, so much that you're willing to risk wiping out humanity down to the last man and give them our entire planet?" Balderdash!" she snapped. "I'm not sure whether you're heartless, though all the evidence seems to suggest so, but mindless ... if the shoe fits, wear it. I said last night you were wrong and I could prove it, and what I meant was your so-called 'real reason, ' not the rest of what I had to say." Amanda, we've had the best scientific minds in the world look at this—".