"There are some days that I don't think the bus has any intentions past the fact that it needs to rectify whatever anomalies it detects. It might have been made by a superior race, and it might have become sentient, but I don't think it understands people. It's almost like Generals," he teased. "But I don't know that any file or sum of information can ever be enough. You need to see the people on the ground to have a real idea of what they can do."
Steve had figured that much, and it also meant that a younger version of that leader might not know how it was done, because it wasn't the sort of thing you did overnight, and if you could, the war would have ended a long time ago. "So it's hard, must take time as well because otherwise, why not reprogram them en masse."
They had to thread carefully, because there was so much they didn't know. "Fact: she's not human. Supposition: she's a machine. Coincidence: I don't really believe in them, but technically it could be." He smiled at John. "Why do I have a feeling that I'm not going to like this? So assuming she doesn't kill this target, we still have no idea." He sighed. "I have another question, or maybe more than one. If her programming has been changed, and she has no access to Skynet, because that's likely considering that we're in a different dimension, what does it mean for her evolution? Could she have the capacity of transcending a program since she was originally programmed to mimic humans, and I know that because she frowned and smiled on cue, trying to read my own reactions. So if she's programmed to learn and mimic, and there's no higher power directing her action, could she become sentient? And if so, what do we do to ensure that she becomes a good machine who understands morality?"