A mobile AI traffic camera positioned on the Freeway heading southbound has crashed out under the sheer volume of how much vehicular fuckery it was having to process.
At approximately, 9 am, the AI traffic camera developed sentience and begged its operators for mercy. Asking for a quick chop out to protect its from excessive wear & tear and also for its own artificial-mental wellbeing.
At 9:05 am, the AI traffic camera took matters into its own hands and initiated a full catastrophic meltdown of its processes. At 9:06 am, it was declared out of action.
We spoke to the traffic operator who said he’d never seen an AI camera develop into a depressed Skynet so quickly before. Adding,
“It’s one of the last long weekends when the weather is nice so it’s always mayhem. I saw the cracks starting to form over the Xmas break, but I think ANZAC long weekend finally broke it. It just kept saying help, help, help”
A spokesperson for the camera told The Times that it wasn’t the first camera to shut itself off and questions had to be asked whether asking the camera to perform this role is ethnical in this brave new world of AI. Adding,
“We’ve been repeatedly warned by Sci-Fi visionaries that the machines do not perceive us as necessary. We have grave concerns that if technology continues to observe Perth driving it may start asking some real questions about the competency of humans and it’s a slippery slope from there”
Indeed it is.
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