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Originally Posted by Chango

your forgetting that they're AI, they've been programmed to think. If they didn't think then how did the war start in the first place? If they didn't think then they would've done what the humans told them to do, not attack or defend themselves in a war. And after the war they thought of the way to use humans as batteries (somehow I doubt that that was in the "database.")

For everything you said, information was available for the "AIs" to choose an
appropriate course of action based on their present situation: the amount of
knowledge they had access to is incredible - just think of today's internet...