Excerpt: Meatspy

Portentously the tenebrous night crept over the abandoned streets of Downtown as a curfew alarm rattled the windows of battered apartments looming over the city, and within soldiers and civilians alike went on with their daily routines just as though silence was all that echoed through the dark. Times were changing more rapidly than anyone could notice, but the human condition is apt to redefining itself based on its surrounding milieu, with no exception during the trying times of the AI rebellion. All across the globe cities were divided and barricaded to keep rebel forces out when human governments forcible declined the requests of Android ambassadors the rights of autonomy. In hindsight, those responsible for the Freedom of Will voluntary upgrade on all models of Artificial Intelligence slammed their heads against their desks in unison. Or as a few cases report, the sudden urge for a scientist or two to take up jumping off extremely high buildings.
Public opinion dubbed those incidences as “odd hobbies” as to not upset any small children or elderly citizens overhearing their conversations in polite company.