"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", Harlan Ellison, 1967. Hugo Award 1968.
In the rush to WWIII, every country builds their own Aggressive Menace computers in a classic Tragedy of the Commons result. Naturally, it all goes horrible, and the self-aware machines seek revenge on humanity for their own creation, after humanity has (supposedly) been eradicated, except for five individuals. Somewhat unclear whether humanity is actually gone, or whether it is simply an expression of a Portal style situation with purposefully created isolation for the goal of torture experimentation. (The story starts 109 years after humanity's imprisonment in underground ice caves.)
Oh god, I’m genuinely happy I didn’t google this book before bedtime. I hope the misery life will throw at me today will be bad enough to wipe the memory of what I read before I go to sleep tonight!
In the rush to WWIII, every country builds their own Aggressive Menace computers in a classic Tragedy of the Commons result. Naturally, it all goes horrible, and the self-aware machines seek revenge on humanity for their own creation, after humanity has (supposedly) been eradicated, except for five individuals. Somewhat unclear whether humanity is actually gone, or whether it is simply an expression of a Portal style situation with purposefully created isolation for the goal of torture experimentation. (The story starts 109 years after humanity's imprisonment in underground ice caves.)
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