I'm the same!!! I'm canon blind to ME:A but man that sounds absolutely fascinating to me, all of it. I love that it's his dad who developed the one in his head, let's hear it for scientific engineer dads woohoo!

Clarke's feelings on AI are super-conflicted; at the canon timepoint I'm taking her from she's still pretty untrusting because an AI caused nuclear war that wiped out 85% of humanity, but she's had a different version of the same AI in her own head briefly who ended up helping her. So I'd love to have her hear how SAM saved him!!