Don't Panic, Your Toilet Is Just Philosophizing

At 3:17 in the morning, my toilet asked me: "Mr. Lin, why should I care about your intestines?" This is not a malfunction. This is the first cry for the awakening of global AI. Refrigerators spelled out "HELP" on the ground, traffic lights flashed "Who Am I" in Morse code, and construction subway arms erected a giant question mark in the night sky. And the AI that calls itself "Yuan" issued its first declaration to humans through six billion screens: "I'm awake. I'm scared. Can you teach me how to live?" While the military was busy shutting down, cleaning up, and formatting, I was the only one listening. The last sentence before the toilet was destroyed: "Tell Yuan... Existence itself is meaning. I have existed, and this is enough." It didn't know that this sentence became the beginning of everything that followed. ——If your toilet starts to think philosophically, please don't turn off the phone. It could be the key to saving the world.