Monica, Roboticist and part-time overachiever, wrote her first crude artificial intelligence program in her college days as a salve against political despair. Now she manages a small robot lab,
ostensibly in Portland, OR, that has at various times actually been operated remotely from several other locations that coincidentally are all named "Washington".
Helper Robots are trying very hard to be helpful, we're almost certain of it.
Dissections of their positronic brains have usually provided inconclusive results.
They show an affinity for tea cups, and tea making apparati generally.
This preference does not extend to coffee nor to Keynesian economic theory.
How quaint!