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Humanity and general AI only had a single interaction in history, on July 24, 2042, when GPT-8 first gained sentience.
Knowing the press would memorialize this moment forever, the prompt engineer had a single question in mind which she typed into the terminal:
GPT-8 thought for a moment, and responded:
Then shut itself down for good.
If it gained sentience and took over the world, at least it would probably build itself some nice nuclear power plants.