The idea is that the AI agent would not only act as if it was intelligent, but truly be intelligent and have emotions and feelings as well. The second meaning deals with Artifical Intelligence (AI) specifically strong AI. In the comic, they are afraid to tell it to love, because then it would experience these same difficulties and fears. The first references human's natural reaction to be afraid of love because it requires vulnerability and honesty, which is very difficult.

There are two possible meanings of these panels. The second and third panels then turn the comic to a more introspective thought per A Softer World's usual style. This joke is a reference to the classic Science Fiction theme of robots taking over and killing humans (see for instance 1613: The Three Laws of Robotics). The first panel references the Kill command that would be used to turn off the robot every morning. The title of the comic is written above, and this has here been replaced with xkcd. This comic is a parody of Joey Comeau and Emily Horne's A Softer World webcomic that usually consists of three photos with some white text superimposed over them. This series was released on five consecutive days (Monday-Friday), not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule, and it comprises the following five parodies: This comic is a part of the Parody Week, just joking about other webcomics.

A Softer World by Joey Comeau