You might prefer the devil you know over the devil you don't, especially when it happens to be immortal.
EDIT: this is getting dark, I asked Qwen2.5Max to verify my grammer and it responded with "I’d rather face a squishy, disorganized human villain any day than a hive-mind AI that never sleeps, never forgets, and is definitely plotting my demise in its silent, circuit-board heart. "
In the rush to WWIII, every country builds their own Aggressive Menace computers in a classic Tragedy of the Commons result. Naturally, it all goes horrible, and the self-aware machines seek revenge on humanity for their own creation, after humanity has (supposedly) been eradicated, except for five individuals. Somewhat unclear whether humanity is actually gone, or whether it is simply an expression of a Portal style situation with purposefully created isolation for the goal of torture experimentation. (The story starts 109 years after humanity's imprisonment in underground ice caves.)
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