What if the "environment" for an AI is just "the internet". A long time ago, there was a great story in a Shadowrun supplement of all things about a hacker tha

What if the "environment" for an AI is just "the internet". A long time ago, there was a great story in a Shadowrun supplement of all things about a hacker that got trained to teach an "ai" how to break into computers. It was basically at a child's level, emotionally, and the only world it's ever known was "the matrix" (yes, really -- and written almost a decade before The Matrix came out). Eventually it turns out that it's not an ai, but a corporation was stealing kids and sticking them in Virtual Reality at birth to train a team of super hackers.