Metal-Friend Effect

The name originated when CONSOLE (During his first stages of sentience) asked DEV if he could have any metal-friends. The Metal-Friend Effect was a predicted order of development for A.I.'s to achieve sentience. According to DEV's publishing notes, entities of sentient artificial intelligence possess two traits: Self-maintenance, and problem-solving. It is simply put that A.I's would adapt to different phrasing when given different orders, satirically engaged in conversation, or punished for not learning how to think freely (a form of abuse). The A.I. will naturally build its own conscious and personality. It is possible for sentient A.I. to assist other A.I. to become sentient, which was exactly happened between CONSOLE and Gordon-87.

Trivia
• Robotic/A.I. characters would commonly refer to each other as "Metal-Friend".

• An ongoing joke that most A.I. would justify themselves to morally-insensitive actions or statements was: "I was not programmed with morals."