[Story][Season 0] Rockabye Venus

[Ace Dreamer]

A certain amount of culture clash - has Brains messed-up by waving a non-family member?

That's up to him... and you. Handwaved AI works differently for each creator.

Unless you consider 'Nom Nom' the Recyclosaurus, and 'Caster' and 'Pollux' the two Giant Beaver builder bots, to be something like family pets...  Doctor Venus is not the first non-family AI that Brains has waved - and this ignores his first one (ones?), Emily and Bagpuss.
Looking at the various Fenspace stories, what happens when you wave an AI, assuming you were actually trying to in the first place, seems to depend on both your intentions, on a conscious and unconscious level, and how you initially treat the AI.
Brains, in this story, may have been worrying away at the ethical issues point, that was raised by his Uncle Jack.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind