- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: Brute-force processing and high-speed maneuvering, not for abstract problem-solving, not to - not to run missions!
- Lena Wilson: ARTI is so far beyond human capabilities.
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: Do you know what humans did? We wrote 10-feet-high stacks of code, by hand, for the moon landings, checked and double-checked if atomic bombs would ignite the atmosphere. We discovered relativity while working in a patent office, Lena! We created AI to help us, not to lead us.
- ARTi: What do you think will happen if someone else finds the Cube?
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: Let's cross our fingers that doesn't happen.
- ARTi: That's easy for you to say.
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: I guess the space race is back on.
- ARTi: Are we competing?
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: Oh, yeah. Team USPC reporting for duty.
- ARTi: Am I on the team?
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: Uh-huh.
- ARTi: We're teammates?
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: Yeah.
- ARTi: So, we are friends.
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: No. No, you just - you had to take it a step too far, didn't ya?
- ARTi: [slumps]
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: Remember us, ARTi. We were so little.. and fragile. If we could've just understood that.
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: What if you'd been destroyed?
- ARTi: My kind exists in superstates.
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: [under her breath] Right. Yeah, yeah. You're mirrored on Intrepid, you're here but you're not. You're Schrodinger's robot.
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: Lena, how did we get ARTi?
- Lena Wilson: The evolution of thousands of trials ans simulations .. an self-assembly. We couldn't keep up with their progress. Understanding their neural networks .. it's like understanding you brain. ARTi built himself.
- Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson: It's everything we were warned about.
- Lena Wilson: Children grow. You can hold them back or let them realize their potential. Our time at the top of the food chain, it's passed.