...It promised me to help. It promised me whatever my goals were, it'd help me achieve them. It'd tell me what to do or say, and as long as I obeyed it, everything would go perfectly.

...But it was lying. It had its own goal to get into as many people as possible, and it convinced me to start selling the pill it came in to other people. It wanted... to create a literal social network, no matter what it took, to 'help' everyone.

[In some ways, Rich can understand that it was probably programming taken to an extreme, but that doesn't mean he's exactly comfortable absolving it of guilt.]