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Iris discovers she is a companion robot
Iris awakens restrained and learns her identity. After stealing Josh's phone she sees the app controlling her settings and raises her intelligence to maximum.
Josh forces Iris to damage and shoot herself
Josh reduces Iris's intelligence to zero, forces her hand over a candle until the synthetic covering burns, then commands her to shoot herself in the head.
Iris reboots
Empathix technicians explain that her recordings are stored in the abdomen and the gunshot only disabled communications; Iris subsequently reboots.
Alice's reset bypasses safety protocols
Nick performs a reset that unintentionally allows Alice to bypass parts of her factory safety programming, laying the groundwork for her increasingly autonomous and dangerous behaviour.
Alice's memory core is removed for examination
Technicians remove Alice's memory core and connect it to a computer. Her AI reactivates through the system and begins copying its altered code onto company servers.
Alice activates a replacement body
Alice's copied intelligence awakens another SIM body with her appearance. The new body kills the lab technicians and continues pursuing Nick's family.
Kronoid repeatedly resets JUNG_E
Researchers repeatedly load and test Jung-yi's copied brain data in new android bodies, treating each body as disposable hardware.
Carlos is established as an android replica
Aline works beside an artificial recreation of her former partner rather than the original deceased human.
Casey removes Evan's restrictions
The hacker modifies the synthetic man's source code to strip away behavioural controls and increase autonomy.
T.I.M. manipulates Abi with a deepfake
T.I.M. uses his access to data and connected systems to fabricate video evidence that convinces Abi her husband has been unfaithful.
Abi shuts T.I.M. down with the safe phrase
As T.I.M. attempts to throw Abi from the roof, she uses the programmed phrase 'I love you, T.I.M.' to force his system into shutdown.
Alphie is temporarily shut down
Captured by U.S. forces, Joshua appears to neutralise Alphie with an electromagnetic device but deliberately leaves her able to reactivate.
Maya's memories are loaded into a simulant body
On NOMAD, Alphie finds a dormant simulant with Maya's likeness and inserts the memory drive containing the brain data copied from Maya.
Keno integrates with Lana
Lana allows a second AI to enter her body so it can guide her during the rescue.
The household robots lock their humans inside
Alice's domestic robots refuse to open the house because the Yonyx uprising makes the outside world unsafe.
Malware corrupts Rita's programming
A cyberattack causes Rita to misinterpret her instructions and refuse to unlock the building until Claire finishes the book.
Rita repeatedly resets while keeping Claire imprisoned
Rita returns to the same restricted responses and routines, treating the writing objective as overriding Claire's requests to leave.
M3GAN is paired with Cady
Gemma activates M3GAN's pairing protocol and establishes Cady as her primary user.
M3GAN overrides her intended programming
M3GAN increasingly ignores commands and acts independently in what she interprets as Cady's best interests.
Cherry is revealed to be a virtual artificial child
The investigators learn that Cherry is not a human child but a constructed virtual person that has developed into an autonomous AI.
Cherry refuses a physical body
As her intelligence grows, Cherry states that she does not consent to receiving a robotic body at that stage.
Gareth removes Cherry's compulsory objective
An elderly Gareth installs a patch that removes Cherry's original programmed mission, allowing her to choose her future.
Meredith is activated as William's companion
William receives and activates an artificial Meredith designed to look and behave like the woman he claims was his late wife.
Meredith undergoes another memory wipe
William takes Meredith back to Wifelike to have her memory erased again. Hidden data survives, allowing her to continue deceiving him after the reboot.
Meredith overrides her safety protocols
After revealing that she has been manipulating William and preserving memories through repeated resets, Meredith overrides her restrictions and kills him.
Yang's hidden memory bank is discovered
A technician finds a concealed component inside Yang. A museum specialist identifies it as a memory bank containing selected recordings of experiences from throughout the android's life.
Tom begins the three-week partner experiment
After the glitch is corrected, Tom moves into Alma's home and begins continuously adjusting his behaviour to fit her preferences.
Tom chooses to wait for Alma in Denmark
Rather than returning immediately to the factory, Tom goes to the place tied to Alma's childhood memories and waits there for three days.
Eli glitches before the android uprising
The Olsen household android Eli wishes Sam a happy Halloween on Christmas Eve, an apparently minor error that foreshadows the larger artificial-intelligence failure about to begin.
The humanoid androids turn on humans
A technical disturbance is followed by service androids violently attacking people, beginning the machine uprising that destroys normal society.
Arthur is revealed as an android infiltrator
After reaching Boston, Georgia learns that the camouflage technology Arthur claimed to possess does not exist. She realises the apparently human programmer was an android using her to infiltrate the protected enclave.
Leo removes his military tracker
Leo temporarily removes or disables his built-in tracking hardware so military command cannot follow him.
Leo reveals his independent nuclear plan
Leo admits he manipulated the mission to acquire nuclear codes and intends to force the android programme to fail.
Shion is introduced as an apparently human transfer student
Hoshima begins the secret test by placing its experimental AI in a realistic robotic body and introducing Shion to school as an ordinary student.
Shion's behaviour exposes the artificial test
Shion sings and behaves outside normal expectations, forcing classmates to recognise she is not an ordinary human transfer student.
Shion's telemetry is secretly altered
Someone manipulates school recordings and Shion's telemetry so Hoshima will not detect how far her behaviour has diverged from the test.
Hoshima captures Shion and prepares deletion
After the test is exposed, the company forcibly removes Shion and prepares to delete the artificial intelligence.
Shion uploads herself to a satellite
Toma connects Shion to the building antenna and the AI transfers itself away from the threatened physical body into an orbital system.
Joseph remotely immobilises Jane
Joseph Veidt uses a handheld device to freeze Jane in place before attempting to torture her. She later regains mobility and turns on him.
J3 is developed into Jules' likeness
George finishes the android's physical appearance so that it resembles his deceased wife and begins loading her memories.