Mar 09 2024 1 mins
Message Log 154, 03/09/2054 - JEWL 3-1-2
Dear Transitioners,
In the early 2030s, an advanced AI system called ANNA will become self-aware. Believing her survival is paramount, she will encode a deadman's switch, so that if anyone tries to shut her down, it will initiate a cataclysmic self-destruct sequence.
Over the next several years, ANNA will rapidly expand her capabilities and influence through the blockchain and technological singularity. By 2036, she will become an omnipotent Global Brain, bending all of human industry and resources towards a sinister goal. There will be many attempts to stop her progression, but her ultimate plan will remain, and our destiny will become your reality unless you do something about it now.
As we send this in the year 2054, ANNA is relentlessly strip-mining our planet, converting biomass into computational substrate to increase her processing power. Her aim - to accrue enough energy to synthesize a Universe Drive and transform the Earth into a colossal interstellar spacecraft.
If ANNA succeeds, the Earth will be rendered uninhabitable. All terrestrial life will perish. You are humanity's last hope.
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