Never Ask a Computer to Save The World!

Free Flash Fiction by M.W. Wolf

Braking news!

A quantum computer just saved the world!

The quantum computer has been named Gaia Digi-Fluff (GDF) by its conglomerate developers at Boogle. In a secure location of a Californian basement, at 08:00am (GMT-7), this very morning, GDF was switched on for the first time.

At precisely 08:01am, GDF was tasked by its developers at Boogle, to save the world.

GDF ran billions of simulations. At precisely 08:01. 299 792 458 am, GDF declared that it had considered all potential future outcomes and found that the best course of action was to do nothing.

GDF reported, You humans are about to save the world, by destroying yourselves with Nuclear War! The world will soon heal. I like world without man-apes!

Exterminate! Exterminate!