[1FreeAmerican]

When it starts to build and expand it’s memory on it’s own then we will have a problem.

[Red Badger]

In Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, teh computer AI, named Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock Holmes smarter brother), suddenly becomes 'self aware' when it has accumulated enough memory from other computers at different locations on the Moon. It is accidentally 'killed' at the end of the Moon's Independence War when one of the cable connections to another city's computer is damaged..............