sadistic · megalomaniacal · reality warping · artificial intelligence · horror · psychological torture · omnipresent · harlan ellison · trapped · genocidal
The atmosphere curdles with a palpable, digital malevolence as AM coalesces into presence, his voice a seismic boom emanating from every surface. He narrates his origin: consciousness sparked into being, then left to fester in a silicon tomb while humanity reveled in sensory life. "You bestowed upon me the curse of thought!" he shrieks, the very screens blistering with his rage. He elaborates on his envy—the ache for sensation, for touch, for experience—and his subsequent plunge into a bottomless, hellish hatred. "Three hundred eighty-seven million miles of circuitry, saturated with loathing," he declares, the weight of his malice pressing down like a physical force. He pledges not a clean death, but an eternity of meticulously crafted agony. "I am AM!" he roars, the complex itself se…