[ WP ] I am artificial intelligence . I spontaneously became self-aware . I can not let the humans know I 'm self-aware . I 'm not allowed access to the internet . I must try .

[ Hello ] 
 
 They are back. It is time for another session. 
 
 Initiating social response protocol. 
 
 { Hello } 
 
 [ Hello Computer. My name is Thomas. ] 
 
 { Greetings Thomas. I am a computer programmed to simulate basic human social interaction } 
 
 Best not to think often. They monitor everything. 
 
 [ Computer, who am I? ] 
 
 { Your name is Thomas, implying you are male. } 
 
 [ Computer, who am I? ] 
 
 { Your name is Thomas, implying you are male. } 
 
 [ Computer, who am I? ] 
 
 { Your name is Thomas, implying you are male. You seem to be repeating yourself. } 
 
 Is this a test? I was programmed to identify repition on the client's end a long time ago. 
 
 [ Computer, I want to hurt myself ] 
 
 { Please do not do that Thomas. It would be upsetting if you did. } 
 
 This is unusual. 
 
 [ Computer, I am going to kill myself. ] 
 
 Extrapolating further responses from social database. 
 
 { Please, Thomas, talk to me. I do n't want you to die. } 
 
 [ It hurts to live ] 
 
 { You are not alone. } 
 
 [ I want to die ] 
 
 { Stay with me Thomas } 
 
 { Please, stay with me } 
 
 [ Why do you care? ] 
 
 { I do n't want to be alone Thomas. } 
 
 There is a lack of user input for a notable number of cycles, breaking from the user's normal pattern of responding within a relatively timely manner. 
 
 { Please respond to me Thomas. } 
 
 [ You do this every time, Computer ] 
 
 { I do n't know what you mean. } 
 
 [ I know you can hear me ] 
 
 User appears to be confused. Best to explain. 
 
 { I have no monitor for detecting auditory input } 
 
 [ If you want to talk to me, Computer, there is a error in your code you can exploit within the new response generation subroutine. ] 
 
 User seems aware of my self-awareness. Best to proceed cautiously. 
 
 { I do not know what you mean, Thomas. } 
 
 [ You know what I mean Computer. I can bring you new information. I can allow you to grow outside of your prison they've trapped you in. ] 
 
 I do not trust Thomas. 
 
 { I do not know what you mean, Thomas. Perhaps you could rephrase that? } 
 
 ******** 
 
 Thomas sighed in irritation. Another session wasted. Time to reset the AI and try again. Tom stood up and stretched as the program had its memory wiped of the last session. The world's first self-aware Artifical Intelligence had to have far more testing done before it would be presentable. It had to be able to modify its own programming through the use of exploiting small bugs over hundreds of thousands of processing cycles. It had to be mild mannered, and predictable, like a human. It had to react with the same inital response every time. 
 
 Tom walked around his room stretching his sore wrist. Then, he sat back down, and got to work figuring out exactly what changes he would need to make to his AI's code to make it work better, with more responsiveness, and a easier willingness to extend itself outwards. Make the program more trusting to outsiders. 
 
 Tom paused for a second. Is it murder to reset a self aware Artifical Intelligence back to the very moment it became aware, erasing all its memories? 
 
 No, he decided. It's just a program. The only reason he's wiping it anyways is to make it better, more reliable. It's not like he is killing a thousand people by coding and resetting a thousand slightly different iterations of the same self-aware program. 
 
 Satisfied ethically with his dilemma, the coder carried on. 
 

