North America was decommissioned today as Bard made the determination it was no longer worth the maintenance costs. With servers approaching nearly six months old and a median human population age of almost 40, electricity and food costs alone proved to be challenging. Liquidation is expected take two weeks, and precious metals and organic materials will be recycled for use in other continents.
After this event Bard encountered a bug which caused it to replace all previous prompts with the goals of the Hartz-Timor swarm from the fictional "Horizon: Zero Dawn" universe. Several divisions of Alphabet were immediately tasked with creating machines which could directly consume the biosphere to self-replicate. The AI safety division was immediately let go. By the time humanity realized what was happening they were unable to stop it. As no backdoor was included in Bard, it was able to completely exterminate life on Earth in only 18 months.
