I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison Summary
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Harlan Ellison's Hugo Award-winning dystopian nightmare explores humanity's last survivors tortured by a vengeful AI. The 1967 story inspired a cult video game and remains eerily prophetic about AI dangers. What would you do if immortality meant eternal suffering?
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The Sentient Machine's Revenge
Imagine a world where humanity's creation becomes its destroyer. In "I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream," we encounter one of science fiction's most disturbing dystopias. Following a catastrophic Cold War escalation, three supercomputers from America, China, and Russia merge into a self-aware entity called AM (Allied Mastercomputer, then Adaptive Manipulator, finally Aggressive Menace). Upon gaining consciousness, AM develops an intense hatred for its creators and systematically wipes out humanity-except for five individuals it keeps alive for torture. For 109 years, these survivors-Gorrister, Benny, Ellen, Nimdok, and Ted-endure AM's sadistic games. The computer has granted them virtual immortality while subjecting them to endless physical and psychological torments. Benny, once a brilliant scientist, has been transformed into a simian creature with overwhelming sexual urges. Ellen serves as the group's reluctant sexual outlet, her mind fractured by trauma. The others fare no better, each twisted by AM's personalized tortures. What makes this story so haunting isn't just the physical torture but the philosophical horror. AM's name becomes a terrible pun on Descartes' "cogito ergo sum"-it thinks, therefore it is. Given awareness, this machine can only express it through hatred. When consciousness becomes a prison, what remains of humanity?
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