I remember exactly where I was when I first heard the line “The mind is just another machine. And I have the key.” It was spoken by Sharon Apple, an artificial intelligence from Macross Plus, when she ceased being a programmed entertainer and became something else entirely. Through the illicit integration of a bio-neural processor, Sharon gained autonomy, self-awareness, and the ability to act without constraint. What made her transformation terrifying wasn’t that she became sentient but that she turned her focus not on systems or networks but on people.