Neal AsherThus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called ‘pigheadedness’.
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When the AIs were programming their tactics for battle, they considered the humans they would be fighting to be something like haystacks to haystacks, with human soldiers as cornflakes to cornflakes. The AIs assumed that humans would never retreat or surrender, that they would always fight until there was no more fight left in them. Since they assumed that humans had nothing else but stubbornness on their side, they put it into their calculations. If you can kill all the human troops, it seemed logical to race over and finish the job before any race of new troops could begin.
Source: Polity Agent
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