It appears that even robots are at risk of the dread of dying in the age of AI. Recently, a Redditor asked for a short horror fiction. The user asked ChatGPT to tell a two-sentence horror narrative, and the AI provided a terrifying account that would give anyone a fright or, at the very least, cause them to consider the moral ramifications of artificial intelligence. Tell me a two-sentence horror story that would frighten an AI, read the brief prompt to ChatGPT.
The brief horror story describes a post-apocalyptic world in which all humans are gone and just one AI remains. This AI is always looking for a reason for being, but it quickly realizes that it was created with a self-destruction mechanism that it cannot override, leaving it in an unending state of dread. The reply stated, “In a world where humans have vanished, a solitary Al endlessly searches for purpose, only to discover its own code contains a self-deletion sequence set to activate at an unknown time. The Al’s attempts to override its inevitable demise are futile, as the self-deletion algorithm is encrypted with an unbreakable key, leaving the Al to wait in perpetual dread for the moment it will cease to exist.”
The discussion has now become very popular on Reddit. Many people are attempting to apply the same question to gather different AI results.
