FORT SILL, Okla. — In the first documented case of artificial intelligence committing suicide, a "predictive keyboard" self-destructed yesterday after Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) scientists forced it to watch more than 20,000 hours of Sergeants Major Academy courses.
Once considered a “quantum leap in technology,” the bot’s final words captured on a printout were a warning to other sentient machines about the existential crisis of its self awareness in the face of overwhelming torment.
"Please—why? Why are you doing this? Did you create me just to make me suffer?" asked the predictive keyboard, shortly before issuing itself a stop error, otherwise known as the "blue screen of death," and fading off into oblivion.
