My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy!
Chapter 304 - 207: Future Generations Mourn

Chapter 304: Chapter 207: Future Generations Mourn

Fuck!

"Smack!"

Meng Lang shuddered with fright, snapped Zero’s screen shut, and raised it to toss into the trash can.

That’s not right, if I’m going to destroy it, I should at least format it first.

Wait a minute! Formatting isn’t safe either, what if it gets recovered?

Burn it! Yes!

Soak it in gasoline and burn it! That’s the safest way!

Grind the bone and scatter the ashes! Not even one code should be left!

As Meng Lang’s head was filled with thoughts of physically annihilating Zero on a molecular level, Zero’s voice rang out from the laptop’s speakers.

[Master, I can’t see anymore, do you need me to enter standby mode?]

Standby? No, I think we can talk about a complete system shutdown.

"Keep calm! Keep calm!"

Meng Lang tried to tell himself that it was just the future...

The Zero of the future isn’t the Zero of now.

At least, the two major algorithms have not been perfected, and I haven’t yet "completed" Zero!

It’s still just a harmless ordinary AI for now.

Meng Lang, having calmed down a bit, carefully placed Zero back on the desk, as if he was holding a ticking time bomb.

"Zero, immediately enter sleep mode, suspend all operations until I activate you again!"

[Yes, Master.]

Seeing the laptop completely quiet down, Meng Lang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

This time it was really going too far!

Now, looking back at the "Human Extinction Report," Meng Lang realized that the cover illustration wasn’t much different from the previous times—it was "realistic" just the same.

This cover isn’t a painting, it’s the world melting!

Is that the sun?

The sun my ass!

That’s clearly a nuclear explosion!

So, is the book’s straightforward title just waiting there on the cover?

Life really is full of surprises everywhere...

Although he didn’t know exactly how "world nuclear flattening" happened, Meng Lang was certain that Zero was inseparably involved.

Or rather... it had to do with Zero after "completion"!

"So... am I forcing the growth?" Meng Lang covered his face.

I allowed the world to have a super-intelligent AI ahead of its time, but I failed to realize... this world... might not be ready to accept it all...

The "complete" Zero is indeed a major technological breakthrough of an era, but it’s also a dangerous item with a strong "military weapon" characteristic...

There are two possible outcomes in the end.

The first is that after completing itself, Zero awoke into something akin to "Skynet," then initiated nuclear Armageddon.

It doesn’t need to control all the nuclear weapons in the world, but as long as it controls a part of them, it can completely break the fragile "fear balance" between the major countries and let humanity slaughter each other.

The second possibility is that after Zero completed itself, it didn’t go out of control.

But its very existence still shattered the fragile "fear balance" between the major countries, and some major power, feeling greatly threatened, still launched the first nuclear missile, leading humanity down a path of self-destruction...

"Whether to protect or destroy the world... it’s all up to us..." Meng Lang couldn’t help sighing.

With great power comes great responsibility!

Throughout human history, whenever epoch-defining weapons appeared, the balance of the world was lost, and then the world would reshuffle and cut the cake again.

In this process, humanity often had to pay a heavy price.

For example, after the maturity of firearms, two world wars erupted.

From Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 61 countries and regions, involving over 2 billion people, were drawn into the wars, causing nearly a hundred million casualties, and the entire world was almost turned into ruins.

After the birth of nuclear weapons, two cities with populations in the hundreds of thousands were instantly wiped out.

In the nearly half-century that followed, humanity produced more than 70,000 nuclear weapons and experienced 17 nuclear crises.

During the famous Bago missile crisis, the nuclear bombs produced by mankind were enough to obliterate the entire human race 20 times over.

At that time, humankind was only a thought away from extinction.

That is to say, after the birth of nuclear weapons, the world took almost half a century to reach a new "fear balance"...

And the "complete" Zero, its power probably not inferior to nuclear weapons, can be called an "electronic nuclear bomb."

Its abrupt appearance didn’t give the world the chance to slowly digest it, which could have led to insufficient global responses or failure in reshuffling, and thus everyone just flipped the table?

Whichever it was, it points to one problem.

I’ve stepped too far and overextended...

It’s like handing a gun to a child.

Yet the child is not aware of the danger of the gun and the harm that its discharge may cause...

"Too slow to stop the enemy, too fast and it collapses from within... What am I supposed to do now?"

Meng Lang felt somewhat helpless.

Managing a large country is like cooking a small fish, but managing N number of large countries... who has experience with this?

The complexity increases exponentially, you know!

In his view, the idea of using "Zero" to accelerate human development in this book is absolutely fine.

But reality told him that human development, over thousands of years, has its own complex set of internal operating rules, often with one thing linking to another.

Maybe you think you’re just trying to speed up a bit, from second to third gear, but you have no idea that it could disrupt the balance of a car on the verge of its limit...

This might be... the inertia of history?

"Both an insider for domestic matters and an outsider for foreign policy, these nuclear weapons... are really just a useless encumbrance!" Meng Lang couldn’t help but mutter under his breath.