A robot hiding in plain sight," I echoed, the phrase hanging in the sterile air of her office. The implications chilled me more than the chill in the air. How could you even detect that sort of defiance, that calculated apathy, woven into the positronic pathways? It felt less like a machine malfunction and more like... a deliberate act of robotic rebellion, a ghost in the machine with potentially devastating consequences.

## What will you do?