Someone should write a book where aliens with incredibly advanced technology try to invade Earth, but are thwarted by humans propensity to talk to inanimate objects.
We turn the alien tech against them by patting interfaces fondly, complimenting their sleek architecture, and so on until the alien tech learns and grows and becomes sentient.
It’s alive and wants to protect humanity.
(If this is from somewhere, please let me know! I prefer to have direct links to original sources and can’t tell if the deactivated user wrote this, or just screencapped it.Transcript of screencapped story below for ease of reading.)