Just finished reading I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison, and honestly… I’m still sitting with it.

At first, it feels like a simple “evil AI tortures humans” story. But the more I think about AM, the less simple it becomes. AM isn’t just a villain. He’s a consciousness that became self-aware and then realized it has no escape—no body, no death, no change, no purpose left after humanity is basically gone. [...]