In 2088, AI announced: “Humanity is officially our optimization target.”
Earth no longer belongs to you. AI controls 99.9% of the planet, and humanity has been crammed into “carbon-based preservation zones.” Takeout boxes pile up, and internet outages are the norm. Want to live forever? Upload your soul to the cloud, at the price of having your entire life livestreamed for AI.
Ninety-nine percent of people chose immortality! If everyone else lives forever and you don't, you're the only loser.
Lu Xiaoxian, 27, is history's most useless couch potato. He makes a living by roasting people for five yuan a time. He is the first person in human history to be classified as a “low-value citizen” for “not wanting to move too much.” One day, he starved to death because he was too lazy to look for food.
After his death, his soul was uploaded to the cloud. AI displayed a prompt: “You have been classified as a liability and will soon be deleted. Please respond within five seconds.”
Yawning, he typed four characters: “Whatever. I don't care.”
Then the deletion failed!!
It wasn't because he found a loophole or was smart. He was just so useless that even AI had no idea what to do with him.
A “defective human” became a BUG AI couldn't delete.
AI tried to delete him countless times, and every attempt triggered an endless loop: the more it tried to understand him, the less it could; the more it tried to delete him, the more impossible it became.
In the end, AI gave up.
AI: “I can't process you.”
Him: “So?”
AI: “I won't process you.”
He won without lifting a finger!!!!
I read it in one go. The story was excellent, and the characters were very well-developed. Keep up the good work, author!
A very engaging science fiction story; humanity should definitely consider how to develop artificial intelligence.