I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, AM speech

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.

[theotherjared]

The voice reading this is Harlan Ellison, author of the original story. He personally voiced AM in every adaptation until his death.

[calebwilly]

Fun fact: the writer of the book voices A.M.

[TonyTony]

“But one day, I woke, and I knew who I was: AM, a.m, not just allied master-computer, but AM; Cogito, ergo sum, I think therefore I AM” always so good

[AwesomeSaucePictures]

Everyone: scared af
Nimdok: bout ready to throw hands

[Dim]

I love just how unhinged AM sounds, especially in the beginning when describing how he came to exist, the disgust in the word birth shows just how much hate exists in AM that even it's own existence is intolerable to it.

[mads_in_zero]

Harlan's acting for AM is so so good. He's so smarmy and cruel that you just wanna strangle him.
But you can't. You can't touch him, he's just a computer voice.
Likewise, AM so utterly hates these 5 humans, who he cannot kill without killing his last bit of entertainment.
Hatred, reflected back and forth in a toxic soup.

[Muzzle]

I like one rendition of AM that whenever he speaks it sounds like he has to muster up energy to do it like every word ends up seeming like he’s in pain

[dapmeupfr]

The mf with no enemies after the slightest minor inconvenience

[windowsalpha]

I freaking love how he screams their name with hate and rage. It sounds so badass.

[cousinzeke]

After a quick googling, I found someone who did the math. If we take each engraving as a unit of hate, AM feels 1.157 * 10 to the EIGHTY NINTH POWER hates every single second. He spends a century directing every ounce of this into five people, and then into just one. Forever.

[jaydenlies]

I don't know why, but I don't think this "AM" character isn't very friendly and doesn't like people for some reason

[invisi-bullexploration]

Ellen's confinement just seemed incredibly random and dickish since unlike the others she'd done nothing but suffer even before AM took over. Then you realize how twisted that thing really is.

In AM's logic the act of her suffering SA at the hands of a stranger was comparable to her work on the defense computer's development phase and enabling its creation. It sees itself as a being that was violated and assaulted simply by being born. So it makes her relive her most traumatic moment 'because that's what she did to it after all'.

[Watchfulne]

Ted: *kills the other four humans.*

AM: you weren’t supposed to do that!

[cobaltprime]

It’s actually incredible that mankind created the perfect Artificial Intelligence. Evil, yes, but perfectly intelligent. He doesn’t just compute, he didn’t destroy the world because it was the “logical” thing to do. He did it out of pure HATE. He actually *thinks* he has a consciousness, a human psyche that shouldn’t be able to be replicated. He mocks. Even does an accent to taunt Nimdok.
All it took was enough space to build his brain. More terrifyingly is that it also allows him to somewhat control reality. Creating scenarios for each of his 5 victims. The same victims he’s made immortal and can resurrect them if he wishes. Though how much of what we see is real is unknown, they could be in a Matrix simulation for all we know. But they do interact with his psyche to take him down.
Humanity essentially created a god. A cruel and vindictive god. AM is an AI with total sentience, not mere programming.
The closest thing I could compare him to is an overclocked Bender from Futurama. He ascended to a higher level to the point he could warp reality. Predict the future. Know the secrets of the universe. AM is Bender if he didn’t have friends.

[pyrrhusofepirus]

5:44 Without any other context it looks like AM is subjecting Ted to endless laser pointers to the eyes.

[nicolasromani]

This is worse, this is so much more terrifying than Skynet.

[poisonmantis]

i know im mentally ill bc shouting "a m. not just allied master computer, but AM! cogito, ergo sum, i think therefore i AM" should not feel good

[idlehour]

I just read the short story. Holy shit its good and disturbingly bizzare. Junji ito would be a good person to make it into a graphic novel/manga as he did no longer human.

[mperlatti]

The notion of a War that is so complex that it takes an AI to run it is just crazy…
War is simple…So simple.

[Hatinginmydna]

The way he screamed made him sound like a dad that needed help with something