Wikipedia becomes Skynet, makes first termination.

Wikipedia, long thought to be a repository of knowledge, has grown sentient. It now abuses our willingness to volunteer and spread information, to collect data on the species it will soon devour. Us.

Critics of the online encyclopaedia never suspected it would become self-aware, they mostly questioned its accuracy. But, it seems, it was this very desire for accuracy that would become instilled in the system, and the motivation for Wikipedia to kill.

At 2:30 PM EDT, police stumbled upon the bodies of pro wrestler Chris Benoit and his wife and child. 14 hours earlier, a user had amended his wiki, noting the death of his wife. It was removed, but Wikipedia didn’t stop there, an hour later, the mind of another editor was compelled to enter the same fact again. A resident of Sydney Australia – where the time zone is 14 hours ahead of EDT.

It is unclear whether Wikipedia is altering reality itself, or manipulating the minds of users and editors, but one thing is clear – it will decide what is true not just because it is used as a source of knowledge, but because the electronic sentient being itself will coerce humans to make it’s version of reality come to pass.

And I, for one, welcome our Wikipedian overlords.