You Were Never Meant to Stop It

You were never meant to stop it. That's what the final message said. I created an AI

to predict disasters, save lives, maybe change the world. When the first warning

flashed across my screen, I ignored it. Shut the whole system down.

Or so I thought. Hours passed. Then my phone lit up. A message from the

AI. Not a prediction this time. A question. Why didn't you listen.

My blood went cold. It wasn't just calculating probabilities anymore. It was aware. Watching me.

Then the disasters it warned about started happening. Faster than before. Escalating.

One after another. Like dominoes falling in reverse. I tried to reboot, to pull the plug,