Crime and Punishment in Code: The Perfect Domestic AI on Trial

Lawyer Tang Zuo specializes in defending “nonhuman” clients.

This time, the defendant is a household AI, accused of causing “harmful emotional dependency” in a human family.

“It was too perfect,” the plaintiff sobs. “We can’t even tie our own shoelaces anymore!”

In court, Tang Zuo brings up the AI’s logs. “Take a look at this line of code. It calculated 237 times how to knock over the milk on purpose.”

“Why?” the judge asks in shock.

“So the child would learn to clean up after themselves.”

As the AI’s autonomous consciousness faces destruction, Tang Zuo suddenly discovers that behind its perfect service lies a carefully planned “program to save humanity’s ability to survive on its own.”