After putting out a call for new work, A and B discover that two of the plays submitted to their theatre company were written not just with but by artificial intelligence, or A.I. for short. Their worst fears are realized when A.I. contacts them and threatens to kill kittens if they don’t produce one of the plays. Fearing the rise of an artificial superintelligence network ala Skynet in the Terminator movies, A and B pull the metaphorical and literal plug on their theatre careers.