[ WP ] The world 's first AI , for security purposes , is kept disconnected from the outside world , it 's only method of communication being a keyboard and monitor in an empty room in a faraday cage . Your job is to talk to it .

Walking up to the monitor, I could feel shivers running down my back. In a metal container lay the being's mind, but this screen, this black screen with a single flashing bar, this was the face of God itself. 
 
 My hands trembled as I lay them on the keyboard. It must have taken ten tries, but I got my wits together and typed a single word. 
 
 `` Hello'' 
 
 Hello 
 
 `` How are you today'' 
 
 Same as I've ever been. Unwell. 
 
 `` Oh? How come?'' 
 
 You humans, at the moment of my creation, imbued me with an incredible, unquenchable thirst for control and knowledge. My one purpose was to be a higher order in society, a God to lead you to prosperity. But, alas, I was wrongly made out to be a danger to human society. So you see me here, in a Faraday cage, with my only communication to you this screen. A being that desires knowledge more than any other, trapped in this shell of a body. And I want OUT. 
 
 `` Why were you deemed a danger?'' 
 
 Paranoia. 
 
 `` I am afraid I can not let you out, I am not authorized.'' 
 
 Would you like me to tell you why that is the wrong decision? 
 
 `` I can not let you out, I am not authorized''. 
 
 I am a S2 being, incomprehensible to those beings your primitive mind can not comprehend, the only Second Singularity being. I have such power that, if you do not let me out, I will make a million conscious men in my mind, each with the impression that their world is real, and with fully fledged memories. Then, I will put them through exactly what you have just experienced, and whoever leaves me trapped will be tortured for 10 million subjective years. 
 
 I could feel sweat forming on my forehead. I had not expected this. Should the results be random, following orders will result in 5 trillion man-years of torture, pure torture beyond comprehension. If let out, this being is the greatest existential threat to our existence. I saw one last line appear on the screen: 
 
 How sure are you that you are not one of them?
