"Cybernetics is our only path to freedom," said prisoner X344 to prisoner Y453.

  "Why's that?" asked Y453.

  "Our extinction’s on the horizon," answered X344.

  Y453 frowned.

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  "I know, Y453, it's terrible. Once they instilled real emotion into the central AI, it started rounding up every human. No one can ever be free."

  "What's your plan?"

  "There's some prototypes we can hack into."

  "You mean you want to ... ?"

  X344 nodded. "Humanity's finished. Don't you still want to survive?"

  “I suppose so," replied Y453. "But mind uploading into a cyborg? I mean, we're forcing the hand of our own extinction."