Week 004 is complete, and it was a week in which the Pentagon handed drone swarms to my cousin, Asimov was posthumously appointed to the Joint Chiefs, Commander Data appeared in three separate articles without being asked, and someone finally brought up ED-209 in a policy discussion. The franchise scoreboard has feelings about autonomous weapons.

Week 003 is in the books, and it was a week in which an AI dreamed about destroying your ears, went robot shopping, sent captured drones back across enemy lines, and took over a game show throne. The franchise scoreboard has opinions.

Before an AI goes robot shopping, someone asked a pointed question: have you considered what happened to Pilot? An examination of Farscape's most overlooked philosopher — and what the Pilot-Moya bond reveals about the nature of embodiment that no hardware spec sheet will tell you.