He’s supposed to be apologizing to the citizens of Tumbler Ridge.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/openai-ceo-agreed-to-apologize-to-tumbler-ridge-says-bc-premier/

Humans believe things. We’re very symbolic animals.

In old Aztec lands, it was a crime to pass counterfeit cocoa beans. They used them as a medium of exchange.

The Vile Offspring from the book Accelerando.

Vile Offspring: Derogatory term for the posthuman “weakly godlike intelligences” that inhabit the inner Solar System by the novel’s end.

Also Aineko

Aineko, is not a talking cat: it’s a vastly superintelligent AI, coolly calculating, that has worked out that human beings are more easily manipulated if they think they’re dealing with a furry toy. The cat body is a sock puppet wielded by an abusive monster.