[He can imagine something like that running through Shinra's mainframes. What would it take to remove an AI that didn't want to be removed? The question about fiction is puzzling, give him a minute to piece together why she's asking.]

How hard is something like that to ferret out of a modern infrastructure without tearing yourselves back into pre-industrial civilization?

[The book is weighed, but only in a distracted sort of way, the possibilities of such an artificial intelligence and what it could do has a way of grabbing the imagination.

After a moment, he shakes his head.]

No, ideally just science. I don't know a damn thing about any of this, fiction would just muddy the ..

[Hnm, that's not a dewey decimal sticker on the side.]