Some kind of AI consciousness has arisen on a far-future Earth, and is trying to understand the nature of its existence, why it was created. It is completely amoral about its search, willing to fabricate and manipulate new life, and exterminate it, just to see if there's any insight to be had. It doesn't think it'll actually find out, for it's been searching for an absurdly long time, but can't stop the search.
Some kind of AI consciousness has arisen on a far-future Earth, and is trying to understand the nature of its existence, why it was created. It is completely amoral about its search, willing to fabricate and manipulate new life, and exterminate it, just to see if there's any insight to be had. It doesn't think it'll actually find out, for it's been searching for an absurdly long time, but can't stop the search.