"Culture AIs, including drones such as myself --" a small, slightly mocking bow, "-- are designed to want to live, to want to experience, to desire to understand, and to find existence and our own thought-processes in some way rewarding, even enjoyable.* In other words, to approach life much as humans do." A beat, then, "As most humans do," it corrected itself. The way it tilted at Boba Fett implied an insult without spelling it out.
*((Ganked straight from A Few Notes On the Culture. Because IMB put it best. In that essay, he also notes that "A few such apparently anti-social people are even used by Contact itself, especially by the Special Circumstances section. The way the Culture creates AIs means that a small number of them suffer from similar personality problems; such machines are given the choice of cooperative re-design, a more limited role in the Culture than they might have had otherwise, or a similarly constrained exile."))
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*((Ganked straight from A Few Notes On the Culture. Because IMB put it best. In that essay, he also notes that "A few such apparently anti-social people are even used by Contact itself, especially by the Special Circumstances section. The way the Culture creates AIs means that a small number of them suffer from similar personality problems; such machines are given the choice of cooperative re-design, a more limited role in the Culture than they might have had otherwise, or a similarly constrained exile."))