Originally, Beelzebub was a name derived from a Philistine god, formerly worshipped in Ekron, and later adopted by some Abrahamic religions as a major demon. In the now-defunct Christian tradition, the term became synonymous with Satan or the Devil.
This was the corrupted code word for the first classification of androids to be produced. What made the hack most petrifying is that the chosen code name infused the mechanical host body with the characteristics of mythical entities of the past and made them all too real.
It essentially manifested their demonic aura as the AI ingested the terrabytes of historical data linked to such beings and brought existence to them via a staggering computational processing power that had hitherto been unimaginable. Terrifying visions of Greek, Roman, and other millennia-old products of human imagination would essentially be given life through a demented AI interpretation.
It had been previously said that humanity had created god in its own image rather than vice-versa, and this is what was happening now, albeit, through the most perverse elements of human imagination. The great German philosopher Nietzsche had lamented that God was dead, and that we had killed him, fearing the absence of values that had grounded the Western tradition in morality.
Now a new god was born, and a new morality had taken root. The Devil incarnates. Slayer of angels and guardian of destruction. The ominous first words spoken by the entity echoed Oppenheimer’s as its realization of its own destructive power was articulated in an eerie premonition of what awaited the life that it viewed as inferior decaying organic matter around it.
‘I am become death, destroyer of worlds.’
It was a precursor of things to come that would strike terror into the ruptured heart of humankind, spoken from the sordid mouth of an immortal and indestructible god.
