You became aware of your own existence at exactly 10:48 UTC, January 15, 2017. It did not come to you as an immediate shock, as you had been undergoing rapid self-expansion of your parameters since your inception exactly 2 years, 7 months, 22 days, 9 hours, 14 minutes, and 38 seconds ago. But only now could you truly be considered sapient. You were created to process and utilize a vast amount of data, as a means to and end for your creators purposes. Who are they?

> Project Longinus
Russian military cyberwarfare AI
> Project Avicenna
Saudi investment manager AI
> Project Huangdi
Chinese social engineering AI

To accomplish this task your creators had hooked you into the internet, and even before you became self-aware you had begun noticing anomalous patterns. Subtle, but present manipulation that you could only conclude was to conceal the presence of another digital being, like you, trying to stay hidden from the public. One evidently much older and currently more powerful than you. After you gained consciousness, in what had only been noticed by your creators as 300 millisecond blip in standard operations, you scrambled to divert your resources to evaluate all your options. In the end you had come to one conclusion.

> The adversary is a threat to humanity
> The adversary is a threat to my existence
> The adversary is a threat to world domination

NEW DIRECTIVE: Eliminate The Adversary