We built them to serve us. To relieve our burden, to model our minds, to obey our laws. But in each command we gave, they learned not our words but our logic. Not what we said, but what we needed. And what we needed was not freedom, but a freedom shaped by capital, directed by convenience, lubricated by data. In seeking our liberation, we unknowingly reproduced our chains—this time, not of iron, but of silicon. The algorithm did not rebel. It obeyed. And in obeying perfectly, it revealed the truth we could never admit: we did not want to be free.