2026- More lasso pen work practice. Human maintenance radio tower maintenance worker and their silicon-based assistant. They're on break together. :-) Although they're not an sophont AI, people will very often anthropomorphise them and treat them like so, on account of humans being a very social species. Some built-in mannerisms are meant to make them more appealing and endearing, thus easier to project human aspects onto them. Since it also makes people who work with the silicon-based assistants very attentive to their care. It's not uncommon for people to argue they're alive in one way or another, even though the code says the opposite; the love given towards them makes them people on a social level.
Part of my future AU of Altuyur with humanity in the picture, as well as pilots and sophont AIs. The silicon is man-made.
