Companion Robots began dropping in price on a massive scale, until they cost about the same as mobile phones. Their adoption rate also surged at a frenzied pace, conquering territory after territory.
In the Tribal Jungle, at first one out of every hundred households had one. Just three months later, one in every ten households had one. Another month passed, and one in every three households had one.
Seeing that people in other homes no longer had to work, people everywhere began demanding that the Chieftains allow robots to be imported.
Under the immense power of the ballot, the Chieftains had no choice but to agree to the public's demands.
Even warnings that this was shortsighted proved useless.
A year later, every household had one.
Two years later, every household had three.
The spread was far faster than smartphones had ever been.
Many people were living in utter comfort. Some even handed their official jobs over to Companion Robots, going to work only to collect their paychecks and drink with colleagues...
Some people saw the danger hidden within it.
Mobile phones would not rebel. At most, they might occasionally explode.
Slave owners enjoyed themselves in peace, living decadent lives amid wine and meat, freely beating and killing their slaves.
Then the slaves rose up, destroying dynasty after dynasty.
Landowners enjoyed themselves in peace, living the good life with maidservants, estates, and the local tyrants' privileges.
Then the peasants rose up, burying the high ministers of the imperial court time and time again.
Now, people believed that with robots, they could enjoy the good life of freely oppressing robots and achieving complete freedom from labor.
At some point, a troubling line of thought began spreading across the internet.
"We need to be careful. Strong artificial intelligence needs constraints. Their intelligence is