"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction.
First book edition (Pyramid Books) Cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon
Cogito, ergo sum
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The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", is the "first principle" of the philosophy of the French scientist and philosopher René Descartes. He original
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
…gains sentience and absorbs the Russian and Chinese supercomputers into itself, redefining itself as a single entity simply named "AM" (Cogito ergo sum; I think, therefore I am). Due to its immense hatred for humanity stemming from the logistical limits set onto it by its programmers, AM uses its abilities to eradicate humanity…
René Descartes, who published the phrase in Discourse on the Method, in 1637
"ego cogito, ergo sum" with margin note in original (1644) Principia Philosophae