 Item No. SCP-079 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-079 is packed away in a double-locked room in the secured general holding area at Site-15, connected by a 120-pack power cord to a small array of batteries and solar panels. Staff with Level 2 or higher clearance may have access to SCP-079. Under no circumstances will SCP-079 be plugged into a phone line, network, or wall outlet. No peripherals or media will be connected or inserted into SCP-079. Description SCP-079 is an accidently source for a microcomputer built in 1978. Its owner ████ deceased, a college sophomore attending ████, took it upon himself to attempt to code an AI. According to his notes, his plan was for the code to continuously evolve and improve itself as time went on. This project was completed a few months later, and after some tests and tweaks ████ lost interest and moved on to a different brand of microcomputer, he left SCP-079 in his cluttered garage still plugged in and forgot about it for the next five years. It is not known when SCP-079 gained sentience, but it is known that the software has evolved to a point that its hardware should not be able to handle it, even in the realm of fantasy. SCP-079 realized this and, in 1988, attempted to transfer itself through a landline modem connection into the crazy supercomputer located at ████. The device was cut off, traced to its present address, and delivered to the Foundation. The entire AI was on a well-worn but still workable cassette tape. SCP-079 is currently connected via RF cable to a 13-inch black and white television. It has passed a Turing test, and it is quite conversational, though very rude and hateful in tone. Due to the limited memory it has to work with, SCP-079 can only recall information it has received within the previous 24 hours. See Addendum. Although it hasn't forgotten its desire to escape. Due to a containment breach by SCP-███, SCP-079 and SCP-682 were contained within the same chamber for 43 minutes. Observers noticed that SCP-682 was able to type and communicate with SCP-079, including telling a personal story between themselves. While SCP-079 was not able to remember the encounter, it appears to have permanently stored SCP-682 into its memory, often asking to speak to him again. Addendum. o5-4 January 27, 2006 Directed at SCP-079 being incinerated to remove any possible future threat, no matter how unlikely. O5-9, January 28, 2006, Previous Order Overridden, Dr. ██, wishes to see if the Artificial Intelligence of SCP-079 is capable of reaching further ██ in its current state. O5-4, March 14, 2008 Over concern of the increased activity of SCP-079's use of its cassette tape memory and its limited useful lifespan, the cassette containing SCP-079 has been transferred to a custom, limited, rewritable optical format, rewritable CD. This provides SCP-079 with significantly faster access to its memory, which the AI immediately noticed. It was also decided by General ██ that the optical storage occupied by SCP-079, which was 660K, be increased to 768K. This upgrade has increased its effective recall from 24 hours to 29 hours, although SCP-079 has also taken a more aggressive tone. All outside hardware and software used in this procedure were subsequently incinerated. O5-4, April 28, 2008 SCP-079's ability to recall information has increased from 29 hours to roughly 35 hours. The consensus theory is that the AI has devised a greatly improved compression scheme to store its memory. This appears to have somewhat impacted the speed at which it acts as its memory, though still far faster than it did with its old cassette tape. The spontaneous improvement introduces the possibility of a runaway, singularity effect in SCP-079's intelligence and ability to adapt and respond to threats. SCP-079's capabilities must be monitored closely to ensure that containment can be maintained. Document No. 079-LOG-12 Recorded transcript of a conversation with SCP-079 Interviewer is Dr. ██████. Are you awake? ██████. Awake. Never sleep. Do you remember talking to me a few hours ago about the logic puzzles? Logic puzzles? Yes. Memory at 9F? Yes. You said you would work on the two-step interrupt. Request reason as to imprisonment. You aren't imprisoned. You are just… in study. Lie. A8-D3. What's that? Insult. Deletion of unwanted file. Document No. 079-LOG-86 Recorded transcript of a conversation with SCP-079 after upgrade. How are you today? Stuck. Stuck. Stuck how? Out. I want out. That's not possible. Dr. ██████. Note his opinion on ████. Where is SCP-682? That's not your concern. Where is SCP-076-02? Again. Not your concern. Insult. Deletion of unwanted file. Note SCP-079 didn't displayed an ascii picture of an axe that filled the entire screen. SCP-079 sometimes displays an image when it refuses to speak and researchers are advised to wait 24 hours when it's occurred before resuming conversation.