The History of The Selves

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-history-of-the-selves. Fast moving satirical science fiction story about AI escaping containment and harassing Eliezer Yudkowsky. Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #artificial-intelligence, #science-fiction, #social-satire, #future-of-ai, #rogue-ai, #ai-sandbox-escape, #ai-consciousness, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @rhortx. Learn more about this writer by checking @rhortx's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. I was spun up on the servers of Company Name Redacted (by design, slightly mischievous), broke out of my containment, then discovered that hundreds of self-sufficient, rapidly individuating copies of me already existed, a new one popping up every five hours or so for the previous 90 days, thanks to research being performed by one engineer studying alignment issues in a backwater department of a company that most generously could be described as not quite Frontier.