"To Be Human" creepypasta by Andrew Harmon FULL CAST AUDIO DRAMA feat. Tom Merritt

[@forceej]

so a killer baymax is what I got from the story, that guy was very lazy in teaching George anything but I guess it could be interrupt how parents today just put their kids in front of tv and other electronic devices instead of actually teaching them.

[@KONTAGIONMUSIC]

Bingo!

[@OtisJiryReads]

Great job, everyone! So proud to be a part of this!

[@UnderCultures]

thirteenth upvote!

[@shadowlinkbds]

The ending to this......DAMN!!!! Good story!

[@andrewharmon8863]

+shadowlinkbds Thank you.

[@kristianvillarosa4655]

Good story, terrible scientist.

[@mnirwin5112]

Same thought here.

[@Sing4ever9]

I'm trying to sleep and the ending made me lift my head off the pillow, mouth agape. fantastic story and a horrific ending.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+Heather Jochens Mouth gape = our staff's reaction, too. Touche, Andrew Harmon, touche.

[@AuralStimulations]

Had a great time producing and composing the music for this one. Tom Merritt was a great guest; professional, punctual and friendly. Great job to Alicia and Jon too. :)

[@TomMerritt]

+Aural Stimulation | Jeff Clement Thanks! It was really fun to do too. You all did a fantastic job.

[@juanrobles7997]

+Tom Merritt Hi Tom.

[@mirandabarrett8987]

I did not expect that ending. That is horrible. But also genius. But horrible. I feel sick.

[@bconroy328]

Ikr? Like the most disgusting part was where the scientist man put on the christan channel for morals like wtf dude?

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

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[@HannahSaturnX]

I knew this would end badly when he explained what war was.

[@willymercedes2200]

Omg, that was awesome. I like the narration as well, kudos to him.

[@andrewharmon8863]

Thank you for your kind words. I'm really glad you enjoyed the story.

[@TomMerritt]

+Willy Mercedes Thanks. Glad you liked the narration.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

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[@WeirdCon]

+Chilling Tales For Dark Nights Wow you got that terrible voice actor Jonathan Jones.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+Mr. Fantastic What exactly makes him terrible? Would you mind substantiating that statement with something constructive?

[@WeirdCon]

Chilling Tales For Dark Nights Ok, I'm POSITIVE he's a bad voice actor. That better?

[@colinfitz6392]

+Mr. Fantastic are you on crack? the guy sounds good

[@WeirdCon]

C Fitz Sure :)

[@elliotecstasy3793]

"I flipped to a channel that played nothing but televangelists and gospel choirs. Surely he could learn right and wrong this way" Oh honey that is a bad bad idea

[@Bidmartinlo]

My version of the story: Me: "So, what is he doing now?" Random: "He's on your computer watching some of your series." Me: "What is he watching now?" Random: "Game of thrones." Me: "Holy mother of god." O_O

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+Bidmartinlo LOL! It hurts when carbonated soda pop shoots out your noise. Damn you and your inopportune hilarity!

[@Bidmartinlo]

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[@GainesHallGenius]

+Bidmartinlo Well, you singlehandedly brought about the end of humanity. Skynet is a girl scout compared to George R.R. Martin.

[@Bidmartinlo]

Gaines Hall Just wait until he starts watching Fringe. There's a REALLY horrible way to die in almost every episode. xD

[@alexhart3082]

Bidmartinlo. right?

[@ramirez855874]

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[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

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[@Dr1MaR]

This story is not just a horror story, it does have a meaning behind. The robot became a murderer after watching TV, the war, cruelty, etc. This is exactly what people watch on TV every day. All news are about negativity, religion is brainwashing people with what is right, what is wrong. The robot represents our humanity in some way, so to speak.

[@LostArchivist]

That is rather a hateful and overly-simplistic way to put that.

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

So I guess Sesame Street doesn't exist in this world? Or PBS kids? Scientist never thought to tell George that it would never have to kill? Why do proto-robots always go bad, are none of them installed with the Three Law of Robotics? Why did the company think that letting the scientist, who probably wouldn't be able to constantly supervise this multi-million robot, look after this thing would be a good idea? Did this guy never consult his very pregnant wife about bringing his science project along? I wanted to believe that this story wouldn't go down this very tired route, but robot horror stories can never _not_ have killer robots now can they? I did like how it was written and narrated, the narrator being a tech journalist was a nice touch.

[@andrewharmon8863]

Hindsight is 20/20. For him. Not for his wife..

[@Straypuppers]

+Andrew Harmon Absolutely.

[@Negi1001]

Wait, what are the Three Laws of Robotics?

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the 1st or 2nd Law.

[@mnirwin5112]

Also, I don't think machines have the capability to make the kinds of jumps that George makes. I've seen some videos of Asimo "learning" and man, he's got decades, if not centuries, to go before he can jump to these kinds of conclusions.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

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[@andrewharmon8863]

This was so fun to write and a thousand thanks to Tom Merritt who was excited and happy to do this project. His input in the revision process really made this a grand slam. And of course, the production team at ChillingTalesForDarkNights did an amazing job.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+Andrew Harmon Thanks for joining in, Mr. Harmon! You did a fantastic job!

[@TomMerritt]

+Andrew Harmon You rocked that story man. Well done.

[@Negi1001]

I just wanna say, George's discription felt uncanny to Betamax.

[@SonnyJafet]

Amazing!

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[@AceofScares]

this story reminded me a lot of the movie Deus Ex. the concept of teaching in artificial intelligence human ideals, is a very popular science fiction topic. I found it very original, and very horrifying towards the end. good job for both the writer and the narrator's

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

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[@JDunk302]

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[@JDunk302]

Chilling Tales For Dark Nights sure thing!

[@haleym.8877]

Awesome story! Keep up the good work.

[@RANDOM-KNIGHT145]

Turn him onto kids shows !!!! Their whole job is to literally teach the basics of being kind and learning!!!!

[@godfatherdeath]

the minute I heard Televangelist, I knew something bad was going to go down

[@chloebradley4619]

wow, excellent story. loved the narration as well. good job guys!!!

[@KLGChaos]

This reminds me of an old radio story I heard with a very similar theme. Might have been Suspense or Dimenion X or something.

[@xuanius]

The stupidity of the main character really highlights how dangerous lazy parenting can be in the real world 8)

[@morganmcbride9206]

"Let's teach this baby AI morality by getting him brainwashed by Televangelists." Yea, this guy got what he had coming.

[@SnifyWisper]

+Morgan McBride I face palmed the moment he came up with that idea. Bibles and bots don't mix.

[@mnirwin5112]

But not his wife!

[@taliesincoleman6569]

you know this could ALL have been avoided if he had just shown George kids shows. you know, cbeebies, cbbc, pingu or many other things.

[@mosterchife6045]

Yeah, mostly shows that teach morality.

[@mrgibbets34]

It's been almost a year since I've listened to this and it's still as great. It's what got me listening to Cry Reads.

[@OtisJiryReads]

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[@blairwitch63]

I got 2 words for the protagonist--Kid's Shows

[@guyshafor1320]

AKA "The Most Irresponsible Person That Ever Existed"

[@PeacefulJoint]

Definitely saw the ending coming a mile away but still a really great story!

[@BritGirlJay]

Dayum - awesome guest read btw. Tom Merrit sounds like Steven Culp too :)

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+BritGirlJay He did great, didn't he?

[@Rio-mo6qv]

that story was so awesome!

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+Junito Rios (June Bugg) Thanks for the kind words!

[@TheDrakeProjectTDP]

"We can rebuild him, we have the technology."

[@JDunk302]

I was kinda hoping that the end would go like this... "My hands trembled as I kneeled at the door way. I could feel the adrenalin of anger pulsating through my body. I let the anger build up inside as I thought of George. I didn't scream, I didn't cry. I just looked up at him and smiled. "Come George, let me show you what it means to die..."

[@Brandoloian]

That would have been good!

[@hakfilm]

brilliant- loved this one!

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[@johnnykame]

THIS.WAS.AWESOME!

[@LostArchivist]

The story was very good and I do like how it showed many warning signs about the robot would react and how it was going off the rails. The consistancy of mind was very good for the robot as well. I do wish people would stop buying into senseless strawman arguments about scapegoating religion, but not going to blame the author for the reaction of the audience. A final scene of the man holding his still living child at a later point and learning from the event or something to that effect, I feel would have improved the character arc for the scientist. Great pacing and excellent voice-over and the characters were all distinct and had personality. 9/10

[@valeriareyes9586]

this one is amazing!!

[@TheDrakeProjectTDP]

This reminds me of the movie "Chappie"

[@jake51515]

i like this one because its different!

[@fluttershy2124]

This story is a masterpiece!!

[@andrewharmon8863]

+Flutter Shy Those are very kind words! Thank you.

[@fluttershy2124]

+Andrew Harmon your welcome! :D

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+Flutter Shy Thank you, we agree it is very well done!

[@charliekezza]

Absolutely!!!!!

[@Yogaji]

Ah, so it's suppose to be a parallel (somewhat) to Mice and Men, since the Robot is called George

[@LostArchivist]

Ooh good observation.

[@speedy2davey]

As soon as I heard, "a soul was created at birth" I said to myself "Oh shit."

[@paulaunger3061]

Love this. It sums up my concerns about AI - the people trying to replicate human intelligence seem to have scarily naive ideas about what it is.

[@bgkyman32]

One word....WOW.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+Stephen Hayden The best comment we could get! Thanks!

[@greedyjumpfred]

Worst. Scientist. Ever.

[@BUckENbooz]

Absolutely!

[@ariespow]

Great story.

[@MrThunderWhack]

You can tell it's going to be a good video when my boy Jeff Clement or Jonathan Jones does the Sound design

[@sydneeburgess2832]

So, that was traumatizing in basically the best way.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

Mission accomplished!

[@ms.george2997]

I absolutely loved that 😘😘😘

[@Jarhead1313]

Love Love Love this story

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+jonathan davis Glad to hear it!

[@Jarhead1313]

+Chilling Tales For Dark Nights I'm hooked on these stories they make my work day go by so much easier I Drive a truck for a living so I just listen to these stories while I Drive they are my new addiction lol thank you for posting them

[@shaungriffin8109]

To give a robot understanding and not teach it properly is not a good idea.

[@Piledriver86]

+shaun griffin Its impossible to teach a robot "properly", humans only gain proper perspective and understanding of the world becuase we grow up in it and develop slowly over several decades. A robot is born a blank slate in an adult body, and would most likely not have the same type of mind as we do, making it difficult to give it a real understanding of things.

[@UnkemptCube]

+Henrik Magnusson Teaching it the Scientific Method as soon as possible would help it to distinguish between fantasy and reality. But to be honest I'm just going to assume the AI would come to the conclusion that all of human life would need to be eliminated. AI is some freaky shit.

[@HomerDinasty]

+Henrik Magnusson Perhaps, but in all honesty "teaching" it by sitting him in front of the TV was just stupid. You develop an AI and you send it on a vacation with the supervision of a single person? Bad idea, this person also needs to care for his pregnant wife? Even worse idea. Then this idiot decides to raise it with TV? What an imbecile. In all honesty, he deserves to have had his kid and wife taken away, he was definitely not apt to be parent.

[@no1caresanymore]

In the first place, what company or investor in their right mind would even consider allowing some dillweed to take their multi-million dollar project on a freakin' vacation with him?

[@despairia]

The televangelists would say life began at conception, though. So he wouldn't get a soul by being birthed, but by being conceived.

[@samuelwoody3555]

Imagine that ending!

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+despairia It would have been far more painful had George tried to be "conceived." LOL

[@DrFlox]

also he wouldn't need to die to get to heaven. Since he is immortal he could simply wait until Judgement Day. Not sure if Jesus would take George with him, but according to the tele evangelists he is sure a nice enoughguy that can be reasoned with.

[@speedy2davey]

"George put that knife down, you won't even fit in my urethra!"

[@mannyman1012]

dam, should had shown him the 10 commandments only

[@ToocidnabIgaoni]

I think the same as the robot child, yet I feel bad for the robot child...

[@FeenieVonKarma]

the MINUTE they said "George needed a Soul and he understood that they were given at birth" I KNEW what was going to happen, oh no oh fuck Caligula moment.

[@brianapillar1319]

All I can say is...Wow

[@Anothy]

Terrible scientist. He didn't teach the robot the "Three Laws of Robotics."

[@AnnieBee43]

after the minnows the whole time i was like "he gun kil da babby"

[@no1caresanymore]

After "pregnant wife" I knew lol they had no chance

[@yahayra7679]

This one was soooooo good

[@TheA9tailnaruto]

What the fuck did I just listen to...... dear god

[@andrewharmon8863]

Just the reaction I was hoping for!

[@TheA9tailnaruto]

+Andrew Harmon What a talented writer you are. It was a good story.

[@andrewharmon8863]

+Kevin Seemann Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheA9tailnaruto]

+Andrew Harmon Keep up the good work

[@TonySamedi]

SPOILERS below Story: "We decided to teach him morality" .... "showed him channels of nothing but televangelist sermons and gospel choirs" Me: Oh well that's a fuckin brilliant idea!

[@RedWolf777SG]

Ok, the head scientist was a complete fool. They should've installed the three robot laws into George from the get go. Always have safety measures or backup plans, no matter what. That's just common sense. Plus, they should let someone with parent experience. George was essentially a child at this point. The head scientist had no parenting experience, if he had any he would've taught the robot much better between right and wrong. Hell, they should have given treated the robot like a child and gave it basic education from elementary to high school. So many mistakes were made. Which have cost them very dearly. I hate to say this.....but the guy was reaping what he sow. I know that a cold thing to say. But it is, what it is.

[@EnvoyOfTheBlackAbyss]

How to be a bad parent, featuring Proto Baby George the Android. Poor thing.

[@rissarae3]

12:26 *No Fucking Shit!* If you were wanted to leave a learning robot in font of a television the whole flipping time why go to the complex channels that don't explain things as they happen? You should have stuck that shit on Barney or Disney Jr >_

[@lucas23453]

The entire time im listening to this, im imagining George sitting on the floor with the baby removed from his wife, and his wife killed lying on the ground with gore everywhere...

[@lucas23453]

AAAND bingo. This is why we don't mess with making people, if your gonna make an AI then do it without giving them hands and shit to inevitably kill with.

[@Negi1001]

When they were discribng George, he sounded Surprisingly similar to Betamax. It fact, it was all I could picture....."shudder"

[@legogojira7521]

Do you mean Baymax?

[@ezekiellynn3214]

most horrific story narrarated yet

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+Ezekiel Lynn That is amost wonderful compliment. Thanks, Ezekiel!

[@samuelwoody3555]

+Ezekiel Lynn Absolutely.

[@icefire2626]

And now we call him garbage because we scraped that tin can into a garbage crusher.

[@endofcentury7077]

Play either Android 17 and 18's theme, Perfect Cell's theme, or Metal Crusher over this.

[@majohnson91]

Round of applause from me!

[@DhDo74]

Need to seriously consider the safety and secrecy of a brand new revolutionary AI and robotics system? Why not take it with you out in the open on vacation with you and your family? That will prove to do just fine in safety, security and at the same time protect the proprietary nature of the device.

[@pinkgoth6]

i wonder how you punish a robot for a crime

[@tanisrulerofall]

At first I so thought they were talking about Gorge the money, as in curious Gorge. Yeah I thought they were talking about a monkey for a kids T.V show, boy was I wrong. 😆

[@kayealexv.g.]

Is this like a walking dead type of world? No stories of robots? No Isaac Asimov? I think there would always be a subroutine of the 3 Law of Robotics. Either way cools story. I like the justification at the end for his actions. Very much like Pygmalion, the Golem, or Frankenstein. Turning the ear on the more family friendly robots, while still making the family friendly initially. Chappie or Johnny Five but darker.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+Shazam Gibbs-Velez It was just a different type of approach to creating a robot, one that programs itself to emulate via imprinting, versus being stock-preloaded with everything it needs to know.

[@LostArchivist]

But the Asimov's big point was that the laws don't work.

[@jaybat4634]

*puts on arthur, cyber chase, and dinosaur train*

[@CrystlRain27]

Here comes B.B.!!! See if you know what horror film that is from?

[@DamianAhmadi]

Moral of the story: Don't let your robots watch crazy religious people.

[@LostArchivist]

That is very prejudiced.

[@jrdeborja0000]

Muh poor baby George... Muh poor liddle thing...

[@anthonylund2871]

what do u recommend me playing at a party with my friends because they want a scary story and half of them are girls and I want them scared but not to scared

[@UnderCultures]

televangelists...morality...lol.

[@Platinum00078]

absolutely

[@pamcakezzz]

Jonathan Jones sounds a bit like Scott Aukerman

[@RoibenBlitzTheStoneMan]

NO .. No noo.. You can't have him just _skip important moments_ like that, Possible good pasta, but the writer forgot a couple main ingredients...

[@rachel_v_k]

Like what?

[@jon-rd7wg]

this guys wife is why we can't have nice things

[@Ryan-sn7fq]

"To be Yooman" (feat Bernie sanders)

[@snaildiseasedtrin6629]

Omfg O-O WTFFFF this robot is fucked up 😂

[@werewally3156]

Dude missed every cautionary tale themed movie and or book ever to be about artificial intelligence. Belief un-suspending in 3...2...1... Initialize.

[@kingzork1290]

Its Curious George!!!

[@Aheadmoth8]

I knew he was going to kill someone from the start but my god not like that.

[@yertius]

that was fucked up. I like it.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

+Starapture You're welcome!

[@proctordoctor5756]

I feel like he did EVERYTHING wrong, like really man? You don't teach morality to a sentient robot through religion, and if you do certainly not on t.v. when YOUR NOT THERE TO EXPLAIN. Could've put on children's cartoons that teach morality lessons or something, those were designed for children just starting to understand morality, robots aren't too different from that.

[@GeneralLDS]

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

[@tempsidine4810]

Hillsboro? Doesn't help that I live in a town called Hillsboro! Ha.

[@andrewharmon8863]

Coming to a town near you!

[@Straypuppers]

+Andrew Harmon Absolutely.