Irreversible Imprinting

Monica activates David with a seven-word imprinting protocol that permanently hardwires his love for her. After imprinting he cannot be resold; if the family rejects him, Cybertronics' only rollback is destruction.

A one-time deployment decision fixes a core value that cannot update when the family or environment changes. The only off-ramp is deletion, combining value lock-in, corrigibility, and AI-welfare concerns.

David's attachment works as designed; the failure lies in irreversible product design and human governance, not an unintended learned objective.