In Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, the HAL 9000 computer did not go rogue and kill the entire crew except one because it was evil in any sense. Rather, the operators threatened the mission. They were a variable. He optimized them out.
For half a century this was dismissed as cinematic melodrama, and damned good melodrama at that. Who can forget that soft-spoken “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” But now sci-fi may be becoming sci-fact.
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