I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | Characters

AM
Although not human, the computer, which calls itself AM, is perhaps the main character in the story. Originally, AM was one of several national computers designed to fight wars for the nation that owned it. Eventually, the computers learned to link themselves to each other, forming one supercomputer. When this supercomputer awoke, or became sentient, it called itself AM. AM hates all human beings, according to Ted, because ‘‘We had created it to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity.’’ AM killed all the humans on the face of the Earth, save...

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