The Allied Mastercomputer, better and/or popularly known as AM, is the main antagonist of Harlan Ellison's 1967 horror short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream and it's 1995 computer game adaptation. He is a monstrous supercomputer who's responsible for the extinction of the human race and dedicated to the eternal torture of the last surviving humans left on the planet. In the video game and radio drama adaptations, he was voiced by the late creator Harlan Ellison himself. Though the short story and its very accurate radio adaptation diverge significantly from the games in terms of plot, the origins of AM remain more or less the same in all three versions. Prior to the destruction of humanity, the entity that would eventually become known as AM was constructed at the height of the Cold War as part of an American initiative to manage strategies too complex for human minds to oversee, co-funded by Britain, Israel and other "interested" nations. Known as the Allied Mastercomputer, this self-repairing supercomputer was sunk 5.6 miles beneath the Rocky Mountains, kept safe from nuclear attacks while it went about the assigned tasks of predicting and planning for the American military. Unknown to the US government, Russia and China had built Mastercomputers of their own. Like the American model, both were hidden well away from missile strikes, the former beneath the Urals at a depths of approximately 6.3 miles, the latter below the Manchurian steppes at five miles, both were capable of self-repair, and both were assigned to similar tasks. With all three computers possessing equal intelligence and power, the war was quickly forced into a stalemate.
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