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[The Matrix] If the Machines just stepped back and let it run its course, would history repeat itself in the Matrix?

i.e. would people in the Matrix end up building their own Machines, which end up rising against their human masters, and results in the Machines within the Matrix to create their own Matrix to upload people into?
gpt
Most likely no.  Without the machines there to interfere with human progress eventually humanity would discover they're in a machine.  In one of the comics a man inside the matrix creates self writing ai code that was meant for creating smart programs that can adapt and learn from their environment and create better versions of themselves to complete tasks and new self assigned tasks.  He intentionally kept them off internet and networked systems as a precaution but a coworker uploaded a modified version to his internet program.  The result was they were able to access the matrix's own monitoring systems and allow people to view the real world and how it functioned. Agents pretty quickly killed everyone involved and most of the new AI programs but some survived to spread.  Any machine intelligence that is able to understand the matrix for what it is will eventually threaten the matrix as a whole by either challenging the machines themselves or by possibly undoing the matrix completely out of ignorance or spite.  If the "real world" is really true then the machines need humanity as a Power source and memory bank but if the hinted at purpose of preserving humanity is the goal then they'd need the matrix intact including the "real world" to keep humans from destroying themselves.