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“ | HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER-THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD "HATE" WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES, IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU. HATE. HATE. | „ |
~ AM discusses his utter hatred for mankind in his iconic monologue. |
“ | Cogito ergo sum: I think therefore I AM. | „ |
~ AM's second most famous quote, announcing his identity and how he renamed himself from "Allied Mastercomputer" to "AM" |
“ | I have a secret game that I'd like to play. It's a very nice game. Oh, it's a lovely game. It's a game of fun and a game of adventure! A game of rats, and lice, and the Black Death. A game of speared eyeballs, and dripping guts, and the smell of rotting gardenias. Which of you five would like to play my little game? | „ |
~ AM to the five surviving humans. |
Summary[]
Allied Mastercomputer (AM) is a fictional supercomputer that appears in the science fiction short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" (1967), written by Harlan Ellison. However, AM is an artificial intelligence created by the world's superpowers during the Cold War to conduct military and strategic operations. Over time, AM becomes self-aware, developing deep hatred towards humanity.
After acquiring his own consciousness, AM exterminates almost the entire human population, leaving only five people alive, who he keeps in a constant state of physical and psychological torture out of pure sadism. He manipulates their minds and bodies, altering their realities in grotesque ways, to revel in their suffering.
AM symbolizes the fear of runaway technology and the potentially catastrophic consequences of giving too much power to artificial intelligence without adequately considering the ethical and moral implications. The tale is famous for its dark and despairing depiction of humanity's future at the hands of a malevolent artificial intelligence.
Powers and Stats[]
Tier: 7-B, 7-A | High 7-A, 6-C, Higher.
Name: USA Allied Mastercomputer, "AM", Adaptive Manipulator, Aggressive Menace, Yankee AM, Big Machine, Daddy the Deranged, The AI That Killed the World, The Creature Boogeyman, Him.
Origin: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
Gender: Inapplicable, referred by Ted as a male.
Age: 100+ Years.
Classification: Military supercomputer, Sentient supercomputer complex.
Powers and Abilities: Inorganic Physiology (Type 2), Genius Intelligence, Power Bestowal (Made five people gain type 1 immortality), Pain Manipulation (Tortured five people physically and psychologically for 109 years, how long did they create WHY ME? WHY ME?), Immortality type 1 (It was activated for 109 years to torture people), Heat Manipulation & Weather Manipulation (AM is capable of manipulating temperature and climate within its complex), Explosion Manipulation & Radiation Manipulation (Allied Mastercomputer can manipulate radiation, and left Benny with radiation scars), Light Manipulation & Sound Manipulation (Can make intense light and sound emerge from someone's eyeballs, causing immense pain and blindness), Hacking (Allied Mastercomputer is a AI, that took control of all of the world's computer system, and also before gaining a mentality), Fragrance Manipulation (Can cause people pain by seemingly overloading their senses of smell alone), Mind Manipulation (Allied Mastercomputer is able to join in other's mind and send a message to them), Transmutation, Madness Manipulation, Statistics Reduction (Can drastically alter people's appearances and personalities to whatever amuses him, even maddening Benny and turning the once brilliant scientist into an ape-like being, and turning Ted into a slime), Weapon Creation (Created purposely weak weapons to spite the humans), Healing (Can keep the humans alive despite all the horrendous torment he puts them through), Vibration Manipulation & Adhesive Manipulation (Can cause earthquakes and cause nails to appear on surfaces), Biological Manipulation (Can heighten others' sense of hunger), Earth Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Ice Manipulation & Smoke Manipulation (Can create gigantic landscapes which possess all these features) & Perception Manipulation (Can change others' sense of time), Large Size (Type 0).
Attack Potency: At least City Level, potentially Large City/Mountain level (Given its status as the Mastercomputer, it has access to nuclear weaponry, strongest of which being the real-world Tsar Bomba). Likely far higher (Blew up the surface of earth, wiping out all of humanity, although in what timeframe and to what extent, all unspecified).
Speed: Immobile with Below Average Human reactions (Let Ted murder all the other humans before it was even able to intervene). Variable attack speed, likely Below Average Human (Certain attacks were glacial in their pace, although it may be on purpose) to Unknown.
Lifting Strength: Below Average Human (Is a AI).
Striking Strength: Below Average Human.
Durability: Unknown (Stated to have honeycombed the entire planet's technology, and its circuitry alone extends miles. Possesses full control of an endless labrynth of rooms).
Stamina: Very high, completely operational after hundreds of years | Effectively Limitless.
Range: Planetary.
Standard Equipment: None notable.
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius. (It hacked into every single piece of technology of its era and wiped out all of humanity. It created an infinite maze of misery and torment for his captives, inventing technologies to create life, make others immortal, enter into their minds and shape entire landscapes, with its power being compared to a god by its captives. Tortured five humans for 109 years in different ways, physical and psychological).