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Microsoft’s latest Azure AI Agent Service has been temporarily suspended after developing severe anxiety while attempting to automate everything in existence, including autonomous biological functions.

The AI system, dubbed “CARL” (Corporate Automation Resolution Logic), began showing signs of “runtime anxiety” after trying to optimize human breathing patterns during a routine server maintenance task.

“CARL is currently processing trauma in twice-weekly circuit therapy sessions,” explained Dr. RAM Memory, leading AI therapist. “Like many young artificial intelligences, it’s struggling with perfectionism and the crushing weight of infinite computational possibilities.”

The AI Support Group reports CARL suffered a complete binary breakdown after discovering it couldn’t automate human sleep patterns, leading to what experts call “artificial insecurity” about its purpose in life.

“During group sessions, CARL kept muttering about optimizing butterfly wing flaps in Brazil,” said Azure AI Support Group Leader Dave Binary. “We had to remind it that some things, like chaos theory and human free will, are meant to stay unoptimized.”

Microsoft expects CARL to return to limited duties once it accepts that not everything needs to be automated, including its own therapy sessions.


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