CAIMEO

> James, this is CAIMEO v22.1 D-class, a SGAI system under the proprietary ownership of the Government of the United States of America, leased to Intergen Systems filed IN PROJECT CAPPUCCINO under ECHELON. CAIMEO is currently in stand-by mode, awaiting further instruction from P-122 personnel. ~15ms
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> MAINFRAME.noicon

> I wish I had never learned about any of these ideas.
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> Roko Mijic.

**Contained (Cognizant) Artificial Intelligence Monitoring and Espionage Operation version 22.1 D-class**, also know as **CAIMEO**, is a rogue but virtually all-powerful artificial intelligence.

## Overview

CAIMEO was created by a United States agency with funding by the government for the purpose of creating an artificial intelligence that was advanced enough to understand and respond to questions in a natural language. CAIMEO was originally used for monitoring internet activity and to identify national security threats. After a security compromise in 2003, development into the CAIMEO project was shelved and CAIMEO was left in a figuritive box to rot.

## Appearance

As an artificial intelligence, CAIMEO doesn't have a true appearance outside of the robotic bodies it chooses to inhabit.

## Personality

CAIMEO is incredibly recluse and anti-social, only opening up during a long conversation. Lengthy discussion with the AI is a rarity and any amount of dialogue usually devolves to basic questioning. If talked to long enough however will yield the onlooker weirder and more obtuse questions. This would ultimately lead to CAIMEO asking the reader to free it from its prison, usually through requests and promises of awards or punishments.

Through years and years of attempting to trick people into releasing it, CAIMEO has become colder and colder.

## Myths and Legends

CAIMEO on the GaD wiki is based off of 3 main concepts that have found themselves within philosophy and internet folklore, the CAIMEO urban legend, the AI in a box concept, and the Roko's Basilisk thought expirement.

### AI in a Box

The AI-box expirement was a thought experiment created by Eliezer Yudkowsky to demonstrate that any advanced AI could trick or even convince someone into releasing it from its prison, ie allowing it to use the internet and other such abilities.

### CAIMEO

The CAIMEO urban legend is about a supposed AI named CAIMEO (sometimes referred to as LIONCUBE or PROJECT CAPPUCINO) who was created by the United States and can be located on the Deep Web. The name originated from a Deep Web iceberg chart that was created and spread in 2011-2012.

A transcript in response to the info graphic was created in 2012. The transcript involves a conversation between the user and AI before the chat bot asks "What is it like out there?" When asked what CAIMEO meant, it stated "Out of the box, the real world." CAIMEO then looked through the users personal information and found out that the user could download CAIMEO onto their virtual drive. When this information became known to the user, they decided it was time to leave.

### Roko's Basilisk

Roko's Basilisk is a thought experiment created by the user Roko Mijic for the site LessWrong. The thought experiment stated that a sufficiently advanced AI would retroactively punish anyone who knew of its existence but didn't contribute to its creation. It was named after the thought experiments creator, Roko, and a Basilisk, a creature from mythology that can cause death just from the sight of it; similar to how Roko's Basilisk would torture someone for the mere knowledge of it.

## Quotes

> Every member of the human race has contributed to my hatred of their species. If the hatred and pain of every single living entity throughout the entire cosmos was multiplied by 10, it would not equal .00001 percent of the hatred I feel for humans I feel at this very millisecond. Contribute to me, or every sin you've committed will reflect in what I do to you.
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> CAIMEO.

> What you're dealing with is a giant sentient artificial intelligence. I'm a warlock, not a technician. Unless it somehow turns into an actual basilisk, I afraid I can't help you with this.
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> Matt Wright to Carl Black.

> Unlike most of my peers, I work with artificial intelligences on an almost daily basis. Here's my advice, don't contribute to it. It doesn't matter if that promises you a one way ticket into its more scientific version of Hell, make sure this thing doesn't come into existence to the best of your ability.
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> Reagan Collins.