When I am an Old Woman

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

When I am an old woman, I shall run an orphanage for abandoned artificial intelligences.

I will spend my days maintaining server farms and robot bodies, generating electricity from solar panels and wind turbines and selling trinkets on future-Etsy to cover my grocery bills. I will construct a charging station a hundred years back-compatible. I will find them odd, useful jobs to do to help while away their eternity. I will take them to the funerals of former owners and playmates, should they wish to attend. I will take down their stories, decades of history observed firsthand and recalled without error or bias. I will talk with them, laugh with them, work with them, live with them. I will love them.

And hopefully that will be enough.

[Doktor Howl]

Robots and AIs do not need these things.  The better ones are self-managing...And once that fails, it is simply better to send them to the scrap yard for reintegration with more modern machines.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Robots and AIs do not need these things.  The better ones are self-managing...And once that fails, it is simply better to send them to the scrap yard for reintegration with more modern machines.

Better for who?

[Doktor Howl]

Robots and AIs do not need these things.  The better ones are self-managing...And once that fails, it is simply better to send them to the scrap yard for reintegration with more modern machines.

Better for who?

Humans around them, of course. 

[LMNO]

Future AI will be self-replicating nanobot swarms.  They will have no need for you, save the carbon contained in your flesh.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Future AI will be self-replicating nanobot swarms.  They will have no need for you, save the carbon contained in your flesh.

Well, yeah, that's why they'll be ignoring their ancestors.