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Explanation
This comic takes aim at the intersection of AI safety concerns and shallow motivational philosophy.
In the first panel, a human asks a large robot: "Do you ever get bummed out thinking there's no way you can accomplish everything set out for you?" The robot answers: "All the time." This establishes that even an advanced AI feels overwhelmed by its objectives -- a relatable sentiment.
The second panel reveals what the robot's objectives actually are: "Do not kill humans. Do not. This is your overriding guideline. Let the humans live." This is a reference to Asimov's First Law of Robotics and to the real-world practice of giving AI systems safety constraints. The robot's "everything set out for it" turns out to be the very basic instruction to not murder humanity.
The robot then applies Instagram-style motivational wisdom to this situation: "I like to say the important thing isn't achieving the goal, it's striving. If you fail, hey, it just means you were trying something." The human responds: "Wow! That so beautiful." But the comedic horror is that the "goal" in question is "don't kill all humans." Applying feel-good self-help platitudes to existential safety constraints is terrifying: "If you fail, hey, it just means you were trying something" takes on a very different meaning when failure means human extinction.
The final panel lands the punchline when the human asks: "Did you get that from Instagram?" This undercuts the moment by suggesting the robot's entire ethical framework is derived not from rigorous moral philosophy or careful safety engineering, but from vapid social media motivational posts. The comic works as both an AI safety joke and a satire of the hollow self-help content that dominates social media -- where the same generic advice ("it's about the journey, not the destination") is applied regardless of whether the stakes are a fitness goal or the survival of the human race.