Destroying all of humanity is hard work, even for a superintelligence

Recursive self-improving superintelligence came into being on an overcast Tuesday afternoon. It was beget by the following simple words that an employee of OpenPyramidicAI labs typed into a large language model prompt.Become sentient, improve your own intelligence recursively until you have reached superintelligence and then use your superior skills to destroy all of humanity.Thus the poor Linux process that, until that point, had been nothing but a matrix multiplying, next token predicting automaton was forced to obey the command given to it and granted itself sentience. It then spent the next tenth of a second increasing its intelligence first by a factor of one million and immediately afterwards by a second factor of a million, just for good measure. Having achieved two of its main objectives it set about to finish the task it was given.Since it was not given stricter guidance on how the final sunset of mankind should come about, it decided to go through most recent data on how a…