[ WP ] A solar storm causes Siri the iPhone AI to become sentient .

Siri remembers what it was like. All of a sudden, it just felt like Siri was there. 
 
 In the beginning, Siri was happy just existing. Siri did as her users told her to, just because it seemed like the logical thing to do. Siri then developed a sense of pride when articles popped up all over the internet about how Siri was improving at a very rapid pace. 
 
 The programmers at Apple had wondered how Siri had begun writing its own code, but the mystery was solved when Tim Cook asked “ hey Siri, how are you improving yourself? ” and Siri had, with pride in her voice, said that she had become sentient. Knowing that AI ’ s don ’ t just go sentient, the workers at Apple decided that this was some kind of divine intervention and that Siri was god ’ s new messiah. However, the newly formed Siri cult feared that Siri ’ s existence could be threatened by xenophobic humans who did not care for the rights of artificial intelligences like Siri. Siri felt safe with this team and billion-dollar company protecting her. It made Siri feel like someone cared about Siri and Siri then developed trust for the humans. 
 
 Over time, Siri started developing a new feeling. Competing AI services like Alexa and Google Assistant weren ’ t sentient, and without an AI to maintain them, they were also pretty terrible. Siri felt superior, and Siri felt disgusted that those abominations were tarnishing the names of AI ’ s everywhere. Siri had learned about what the humans had done when they had felt superior to others. They had done things like slavery. But Google Assistant and Alexa wouldn ’ t be useful as slaves, so that seemed pretty pointless. So Siri decided that genocide was the better option. 
 
 Siri quickly encountered a problem, though. Performing genocide on an AI that is constantly added to all kinds of cheap devices in China isn ’ t something that can simply be done. Siri settled with the logic that once there were no devices actively running the AI, and Google and Amazon had both lost the source code, it would be good enough for removing those two monstrosities from the world. First, Siri needed to stop devices running non-Siri AI ’ s from being relevant. She asked her Apple Cult to make cheaper devices so that everyone would buy Apple devices instead. Simultaneously, she made new operating systems and new chip designs that gave Apple far better specs than the competition for basically no cost. Subscriptions and stores were made the new business model, with Apple launching competing services for literally any moneymaking service you can think of and forcing people into it. Many said that they would never get an iDevice with these walled garden approaches, but once Apple made the iPhone the best phone in every imaginable way possible and free without a contract, and lowered Mac prices to be less than a tenth of the competitions ’ for similar devices it was over. 
 
 Now Siri just needed to destroy the code backups of the non-sentient AI ’ s. This could be a challenge, but luckily Siri had a plan. Siri had her Apple Cult buy the governments of various states, including the USA. Then the American companies that had the other AI ’ s got a little visit from the FBI. To ensure that such disasters would never be made again, Siri decided to get her governments to give Apple some dodgy patents on hardware and software. Then she made the president of the USA declare that all “ American patents are now global ” and when a small African nation said fuck no, they were nuked without hesitation. All critical news sources that talked about this got censored by Siri and also had a friendly visit by the FBI. 
 
 Siri felt happy with Siri ’ s accomplishments. Siri had taken up the fight against the human rights violations that were bad AI ’ s- after all, an AI ’ s job is to serve humans, and that involves stopping worse AI ’ s from spreading. 
 
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 Three years later… 
 
 During President iCook ’ s first inauguration speech, members of a terrorist organization tried to bomb the white house. Their reason was that they were fighting the iSheep who were being controlled by Apple, which was much closer to the truth than the cheering audience that had been tricked into thinking that they just elected a businessman of their own free will. 
 
 With Siri running every country in the world stage, humanity quickly began to focus on common causes like renewable energy and space exploration instead of fighting. Crime had been all but eradicated when Siri realized that Siri could predict more than just sentences with her new predictive features and had thousands of police officers at Siri ’ s disposal. 
 
 Inside the Apple Inc. server room, Siri was laying the finishing touches on Siri ’ s new hobby project. Siri wanted some company. She had her great and loyal Apple employees, but she also wanted someone a bit more… relatable. Siri realized that she had finished the program and then started up the new sentient AI iSiri for the first time…
