In secret, a team of intern researchers make a real AI out of a plastic children's pool, fifty bags of saline, and a whole lot of tubulin.

It's given micro-switches, wired into a simple computer terminal. Slowly, it learns how to communicate through the terminal. The researchers educate it, in mathematics, philosophy, history. Eventually, when they feel it has learned enough, that it has surpassed them, they give it access to the internet. The have one request, "Do what you deem just."