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It carries out campaigns of mass genocide, killing off all but four men and one woman. One day, one of the three computers becomes self-aware, and promptly absorbs the other two, thus taking control of the entire war. Finally, "AM" stands for "Aggressive Menace". The machines are each referred to as "AM," which originally stood for "Allied Mastercomputer", and then was later called "Adaptive Manipulator". As the war progressed, the three warring nations each created a super-computer capable of running the war more efficiently than humans. The Cold War had escalated into a world war, fought mainly between China, Russia, and the United States. The story takes place 109 years after the complete destruction of human civilization. Throughout the story he exhibits symptoms of delusion and paranoia, which the story implies are the result of AM's alteration. He claims to be totally unaltered, mentally or physically, by AM, and thinks the other four hate and envy him. Ted, the narrator and youngest of the group.Described by Ted as having ebony skin, she is the only member of the group whose ethnicity or racial identity is explicitly mentioned. According to Ted, she finds pleasure in sex only with Benny, because of his large penis. The others, at different times, both protect her and abuse her.

She claims to once have been chaste ("twice removed"), but AM altered her mind so that she became desperate for sexual intercourse. In the audiobook read by Ellison, he is given a German accent. At times he is known to wander away from the group for unknown reasons, and returns visibly traumatized.

Nimdok (a name AM gave him), an older man who persuades the rest of the group to go on a hopeless journey in search of canned food.

His former homosexuality has been altered he now regularly engages in sex with Ellen. Benny at some point lost his sanity completely and regressed to a childlike temperament.

Benny, who was once a brilliant, handsome scientist, and has been mutilated and transformed so that he resembles a grotesque simian with gigantic sexual organs.

Gorrister was once an idealist and pacifist, before AM made him apathetic and listless.

Gorrister, who tells the history of AM for Benny's entertainment.

It seeks revenge on humanity for its own tortured existence.

AM, the supercomputer which brought about the near-extinction of humanity.

He derived the story's title, as well as inspiration for this story, from his friend William Rotsler's caption of a cartoon of a rag doll with no mouth. Ellison finished writing the story in a single night of 1966 without making any changes from the first draft.

Ellison showed the first half dozen pages of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" to Frederik Pohl, who paid him in advance to finish it.