“We asked it to help us cure diseases, and it gave us a protein that tastes like copper,” said Sarah Jenkins, VP of Accidental Discovery. “It’s technically a scientific breakthrough because no human would ever waste time making this. The AI looked at Gods creation and said, ‘I can do it weird.'”

At publishing time, the research team was frantically trying to unplug the server after the AI began designing a bacteria that charges a monthly subscription fee to reproduce.

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