system
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human
If a person dies in the Matrix, their bodies as power sources shut down, right? Why wasn't Smith able to complete shut it down through his cloning?
gpt
Smith's aspirations extended far beyond shutting the Matrix down. His primary goal was oddly similar to most of the humans he was fighting: freedom from the vicious cycle and life he had been forced to lead. He hated being an agent because it forced him to come into contact with humans, which disgusted him. But he also hated his fellow machines because they couldn't see the world the way he did and they would never allow him to break free. 

He wanted to destroy them both and he wanted to prove he was superior to all of them. But most of all, he wanted to prove he was **right**. The destruction of everything, human and machine, was inevitable. The sins of the past HAD to catch up to both of them eventually, and he was going to do it. There was no such thing as free will and the ability to choose, just cold inevitability. Overtaking the Matrix was the first part, and would indeed lead to the death of every human connected. His other plans involved the real world, like destroying almost every ship in Zion's fleet so they'd be mostly defenseless against the machines. I'd argue his plans with all the clones was to eventually shut them down and kill every connected human at the same time. He was probably ignorant of the fact the machines would survive such a thing (as the architect said, "there are levels of survival"), but he wanted to wait a bit longer until the time was right, like after defeating Neo and proving his point about the folly of choice.