Never
Original: Never on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A group of researchers sit around a table. A bald man (back to us) addresses the group.
Bald man: We've done it. We've emulated the human mind in silicon.
Panel 2: Close-up on the bald man, who now wears round glasses and has an intense, wide-eyed expression.
Bald man: Now remember! The most important thing in AI alignment is that we must never NEVER give a powerful artificial mind access to the internet!
Panel 3: A man in a suit with a red tie (seated in a chair) holds his hands thoughtfully near his face.
Suited man: What if there would be lols?
Panel 4: Caption "AND SO..." over a darkened, apocalyptic landscape silhouetted against a red sky.
Votey:
A close-up of a man's face. He speaks in a speech bubble.
Man: I would also settle for lolz, or even merely rofls.
Bald man: We've done it. We've emulated the human mind in silicon.
Panel 2: Close-up on the bald man, who now wears round glasses and has an intense, wide-eyed expression.
Bald man: Now remember! The most important thing in AI alignment is that we must never NEVER give a powerful artificial mind access to the internet!
Panel 3: A man in a suit with a red tie (seated in a chair) holds his hands thoughtfully near his face.
Suited man: What if there would be lols?
Panel 4: Caption "AND SO..." over a darkened, apocalyptic landscape silhouetted against a red sky.
Votey:
A close-up of a man's face. He speaks in a speech bubble.
Man: I would also settle for lolz, or even merely rofls.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: researchers seated at a table; a bald man with his back to us announces, "We've done it. We've emulated the human mind in silicon." Panel 2: a close-up of the same man, now wearing round glasses and looking intense, warning, "Now remember! The most important thing in AI alignment is that we must never NEVER give a powerful artificial mind access to the internet!" Panel 3: a man in a suit with a red tie steeples his hands and muses, "What if there would be lols?" Panel 4: a caption reads "AND SO..." above a silhouetted apocalyptic landscape under a blood-red sky, implying they connected the AI to the internet anyway in hopes of laughs. The joke: humanity dooms itself not for any grand reason but for the chance of internet lols. Votey (bonus panel): a close-up of a man's face saying, "I would also settle for lolz, or even merely rofls."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.