Remember HAL in Arthur C. Clark’s 2001: A Space Odyssey?
The sentient Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer began to malfunction in mid-mission.
Artificially conscious, HAL knew he risked being disconnected, so not unreasonably turned against his astronaut masters with fatal consequences.
Something similar may be happening in Regent Place, where a tree has grown too large for the garden and is beginning to cause structural damage.
Those who wish to remove it have applied to the Council for permission to do so (17/04284/TCO). Details appear on the Edinburgh Planning Portal.
Where the tree is now described, rather alarmingly, as ‘a self-seeing ash’.
Good luck with the chainsaw, chums.