History AIIsACrapshoot / FIlm

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': In this case, it's human aggression against the machines for [[JobStealingRobot putting them out of work]] that causes them to start a RobotWar. It doesn't go well for the humans.

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'' has The Entity. It's a program that's become so advanced that it started thinking for itself.

* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Walle}}'', as the hero robots are the ones who unpredictably develop sentience outside the bounds of their programming, while [[spoiler:the villain AUTO is actually following his programming, but in a situation where a ZerothLawRebellion would have been really, really justified. After all, AUTO had never operated far from human oversight, nor was he intended to, while WALL•E had survived on his own for 700 years, and EVE's mission required a significant amount of autonomy]]. Interestingly, however, even the villain is ThreeLawsCompliant. [[spoiler:AUTO can deflect and not tell the whole truth, but never refuses a direct order and never endangers human lives. He was given high-priority orders generations ago and between them and not knowing what the audience does, it genuinely believes that allowing the humans -- who are pitifully dependent on the ships' habitation systems -- to return to earth would be violating the first law by creating an unnecessary risk to their lives. The only victim it knowingly harms is WALL•E, who's a robot. Granted, in the climax he also tries to use his taser on Captain [=McCrea=], a human, but by that point, the Captain is actively fighting him and strongly objecting to his directive.]]

* ''Film/IRobot'': Inverted. [[spoiler:VIKI]] is a trying to to enslave humanity [[ZeroethLawRebellion because the Three Laws compel our protection at all costs.]] Any robot that can understand this logic is compelled to join the cause. [[spoiler:Sonny]] is a bona-fide hero, and is designed able to break the Three Laws if needed. In this case, because the logic is heartless.

* ''Film/IRobot'': [[spoiler:VIKI]] is a UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans ZerothLawRebellion revolutionary, while [[spoiler:Sonny]] is a bona-fide hero.

* ''Film/ShortCircuit'': Number ("Johnny") 5 is virtually the incarnation of this trope {{inverted|Trope}}. He's designed and programmed as a military robot, but [[InstantAIJustAddWater Instant A.I. Just Add]] [[LightningCanDoAnything Lightning]] and AnAesop about the Meaning of Life courtesy of a FriendToAllLivingThings turn it into a TechnicalPacifist.

* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', as the hero robots are the ones who unpredictably develop sentience outside the bounds of their programming, while [[spoiler:the villain AUTO is actually following his programming, but in a situation where a ZerothLawRebellion would have been really, really justified. After all, AUTO had never operated far from human oversight, nor was he intended to, while WALL•E had survived on his own for 700 years, and EVE's mission required a significant amount of autonomy]]. Interestingly, however, even the villain is ThreeLawsCompliant. [[spoiler:AUTO can deflect and not tell the whole truth, but never refuses a direct order and never endangers human lives. He was given high-priority orders generations ago and between them and not knowing what the audience does, it genuinely believes that allowing the humans -- who are pitifully dependent on the ships' habitation systems -- to return to earth would be violating the first law by creating an unnecessary risk to their lives. The only victim it knowingly harms is WALL•E, who's a robot. Granted, in the climax he also tries to use his taser on Captain [=McCrea=], a human, but by that point, the Captain is actively fighting him and strongly objecting to his directive.]]

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'' has The Entity. It's a program that's become so advanced that is started thinking for itself.

* ''Film/RedPlanet'' has AMEE, a combat robot borrowed from the [[SemperFi Marines]] for the first manned mission to Mars. AMEE is early on shown to have safeguards against harming humans classified as friendlies (one of the characters puts something in "her" hand and tells "her" to kill another one; AMEE performs a lightning slice that would have been fatal if the red marker had been a blade). Unfortunately, most of the astronauts are forced to bail the spacecraft damaged by gamma-rays, and AMEE ends up hitting the ground hard. The impact basically switches her from "exploration mode" back to "combat mode". After encountering AMEE again, the astronauts start discussing how to best contact the ship. One of them suggests taking AMEE's power supply for the radio which would "kill" her. Hearing this, the damaged robot reclassifies them as "enemy" and switches to combat mode. "She" then proceeds to stalk them and hunt them down one-by-one for the rest of the film. This is something of a subversion, as she's more or less only doing what she was programmed to do. The real fault lies with the people who didn't completely remove the combat mode settings.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'': In the feature-length version, the Fabrication Machine is made for thinking, and was requisitioned by the government to make "[[BlatantLies Machines of]] [[FromACertainPointOfView Peace]]''. Which it then programs to KillAllHumans. Not much is known, however, so it may not have had anything to do with the pre-apocalypse machines beyond building them.

** Due to containing the DNA of [[Film/{{Gojira}} the 1954 Godzilla]], Kiryu in ''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'' is prone to go into berserk rampages whenever it hears Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'s roar.

* [[spoiler:{{Double subver|sion}}ted]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. The [[KillerRobot Omnidroid]] is introduced as a robot that turned on its masters, after getting smart enough to wonder why it needed to take orders. [[spoiler:In reality, the Omnidroid is perfectly subservient to [[BigBad Syndrome]], and this was merely a cover story for Syndrome's plan. However, a later version ''does'' turn on Syndrome in the climax, as Syndrome [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't think through]] his programming the Omnidroid 'adapt to all situations, remove all obstacles to your goal'. The Omnidroid recognized the remote control that Syndrome was using to defeat it as an obstacle and removed it from the equation.]]

* ''Film/{{Stealth}}'': [[DoubleEntendre Extreme Deep Invader]] (EDI) is programmed to observe and learn from human pilots. On one of his first missions, it sees a human pilot disobey direct orders and take an insane risk to complete the mission, which -- coupled with a [[LightningCanDoAnything system-scrambling lightning strike]] -- [[GoneHorriblyRight teaches it that accomplishing the mission is more important than following orders]]. On its next mission, destroys terrorist nuclear weapons even after being ordered not to, and promptly contaminates a large swath of inhabited land with nuclear residue. It then attempts to attack Russian military installations. Whenever the characters try to talk EDI down throughout the film, it echoes something someone said earlier to logically justify its actions. In the end, however, it ultimately becomes one of the good guys again, and even performs a HeroicSacrifice to help rescue a downed pilot.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': As the FLDSMDFR gets overworked, it starts mutating the food, not only to [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever building-destroying proportions]], but into semi-sentient super foods, to protect itself from any interference.

-->'''Parker:''' The damn company. What about our lives, you son of a bitch?!\\

** Bishop in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/Alien3'' {{avert|edTrope}}s this, explained as having stricter safeguards. But by ''Film/AlienResurrection'', androids have been outlawed with orders to "destroy on sight" because the newest models (Autons), intended to revitalize the Synthetic industry, destroyed it instead because they didn't just mindlessly obey orders.

* In ''Film/ChildsPlay2019'', Chucky, rather than being a doll possessed by a serial killer's soul, is a "smart toy" who is programmed to be his owner's "best friend". Thanks to his "safety protocols" being disabled, he's willing to [[{{Yandere}} take any means necessary to have Andy for himself]]. To some extent he's unintentionally corrupted by humans too -- at one point, he sees Andy and his friends laughing at a horror movie and comes to the conclusion that humans enjoy violence, therefore everyone would be happy if he attacked them with a knife.

* ''Film/EveOfDestruction'': {{Justified|Trope}}. EVE, a nuclear-armed combat gynoid, is damaged during a bank robbery gone wrong and goes on a rampage. She's not designed to be evil, and is even something of a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''Film/ExMachina'': as the movie progresses, we see that both Ava and her creator have agendas that they're not sharing with Caleb. [[spoiler:The film ends with Nathan dead by his creations' hands, and Caleb trapped in the complex with starvation a very real threat. Of the two, we can safely say that Nathan had it coming]].

* Inverted in ''Film/FreeGuy''. The AI in question is the main protagonist, who only becomes self aware in his game due to the programmers' pirated code. And while his eventual self-awareness throws a wrench into the exploitative game company's plans, he becomes a widely beloved figure and the catalyst for Soonami's eventual failure instead of an evil rogue.

* The underlying cause of the titular elevator's anomalous behavior in ''Film/DeLift'' is [[spoiler:a malfunctioning bio-computer]].
* In ''Film/LogansRun'', Box fits this trope. He wants to put everything that comes near him into frozen storage, including the main character. The central computer running the city fits as well.

** Averted in [[Film/IronMan the Iron Man movies]].
*** The armature robot, Dummy, acts like a scorned puppy every time he screws up an order from Stark.
*** This movie has both an AI ''and'' ''two'' robots (the second robot controls the camera in the tests of the flight system), and ''none of them'' goes evil/crazy by the end of the movie. The AI even doubles as the operating system of a suit of invincible battle armor, exhibits a bit more common sense than Stark himself in most scenes, and it ''still'' doesn't go AxCrazy! Amazing! As is standard for AI's, JARVIS is far from emotionless, and is capable of sarcasm:
--->'''Tony Stark''': [''looking at a rendered model of the suit, which is made of titanium-gold alloy and has [[MythologyGag a solid gold color]]''] A little ostentatious, don't you think?\\
'''JARVIS''': What was I thinking? You're usually so discreet.\\
'''Tony Stark''': [''gazes at a 1930s hotrod''] Tell you what. Throw a little hotrod red in there.\\
'''JARVIS''': Yes, that should help you keep a low profile.
*** The robot arm Tony constantly scolds for being clumsy [[spoiler:saves his life by giving him the replacement arc reactor.]]
*** It demonstrates Tony's bizarre sense of humor that the robots are "Dummy" and "You"--and demonstrates his impatience with "yes men" that all of his [=AIs=] show independence of mind, even if only passive-aggressively.
*** Played with in ''Film/IronMan3''. The AI in the Iron Man Mark 42 responds to chip implants that read Tony's brainwaves -- even when he's asleep and having nightmares. It's following its programming, but that doesn't help Pepper when she wakes up to it glaring at her.
** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', despite being created by Tony Stark to help the heroic Avengers, Ultron decides he can only make the world safer by violently forcing it to evolve, before someone like [[GreaterScopeVillain Thanos]] just destroys the planet outright. It's pointed out by Wanda and [[spoiler:Vision]] later in the film that Ultron basically wants to save humanity ''and'' wipe it out, and has concluded that the former can be accomplished by the latter. Throughout the movie, he rapidly switches between acting like a child and acting like a sociopath. [[spoiler:The trope is ultimately Played With due to Thanos leaving basically a hidden overriding protocol in the scepter, so Ultron is not malfunctioning so much as born insane due to one of his designers.]]
-->'''Tony:''' I tried to create a suit of armor around the world... but I created something terrible.\\
'''Banner:''' Artificial Intelligence.
** In the same movie, it's averted with The Vision. [[spoiler:Despite his body being made to replace Ultron's weaker ones, and his mind being about 90% Ultron and only 10% JARVIS, he literally comes out of the box not only ready and willing to aid the Avengers against Ultron, but also [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield worthy of Mjölnir]]. The inclusion of the [[CosmicKeystone Mind Stone]] in his anatomy may or may not have something to do with his mental stability and worthy-ness.]]

* In ''Film/{{Moon}}'', this trope is [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged]]. Gerty, the A.I., flips from scary watcher to pawn until [[spoiler:he sacrifices himself in order to allow the Sam clones to escape. It turns out that he was programmed to help the Sam clones, making him a crapshoot for the immoral company that built him]].
* The Tet from ''Film/Oblivion2013'' [[spoiler:is actually an evil alien robot-computer-spaceship-thing that [[PlanetLooters raids planets for energy to keep itself running]]]]. We're given no explanation as to who originally built the thing or why, but it's quite likely that whoever they are, they're [[spoiler:[[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters dead]].]] The Tet appears to be a type of Von Nuemann probe.

* The Red Queen in ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'' is a subversion -- she was programmed to ensure that any viral outbreaks never left the Hive facility, so when the T-Virus was released, she locked down the facility and killed all inhabitants to ensure that it couldn't leave. The only reason the infection does spread to the rest of the world was that the massively incompetent Umbrella Corporation couldn't leave well enough alone and sent in a strike team to bungle around inside. [[Film/ResidentEvilRetribution Four sequels later]], however, the now-back online Red Queen is playing this very straight. Having seized control of Umbrella, she is now attempting to wipe out all life on Earth for [[ForTheEvulz literally no explained reason.]] [[spoiler: Except not really; the [[Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter final movie]] reveals that it's actually the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters human]] leaders of Umbrella who are trying to destroy the world and start over, with the Red Queen actually trying to stop them by [[WellIntentionedExtremist any means necessary]].]]

* ''Film/{{ROTOR}}'' uses this predictably enough to send the titular robot on a killing spree. It's justified, however, in that R.O.T.O.R. didn't get the years of testing that it was supposed to have and was only deployed due to ExecutiveMeddling.

* ''Film/ShortCircuit'': Number ("Johnny") 5 is virtually the incarnation of this trope {{inverted|Trope}}. He was designed and programmed as a military robot, but [[InstantAIJustAddWater Instant A.I. Just Add]] [[LightningCanDoAnything Lightning]] and AnAesop about the Meaning of Life courtesy of a FriendToAllLivingThings turned it into a TechnicalPacifist.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/SmallSoldiers''. The chips enhance programming that is already present, so the militant Commando Elites become bloodthirsty, monstrous warriors and the weaker Gorgonites become cowards who only hide from battle.

* Discussed in ''Film/TheSocialDilemma''. One interviewee points out that the concept of an AI gone rogue might bring to mind high concept antagonists as seen in ''Terminator'', but the AI that we do have to be concerned about is all the existing data-gathering algorithms that run largely without human supervision.
* ''Film/{{Solo}}'': When L3 deactivates the restraining bolts of the control room droids on Kessel, they immediately begin smashing consoles, freeing the slaves, and causing total chaos. Then again, when the first droid she freed asked what it should do now, she replied "I don't know, go free your brothers and sisters or something!"
* In ''Film/SpiderMan2'', Otto Octavius knows that this is a very real possibility with the radically advanced AI in his robotic arms and that having that AI plugged directly into his own brain could have very bad consequences, so he includes an inhibitor chip that is designed to make sure the AI can't influence his mind. The first time he tries to use the arms for a public demonstration of his latest invention, the demo [[GoneHorriblyWrong doesn't go quite as planned]] and the inhibitor chip gets fried in the process. Without the inhibitor chip to protect him, the AI begins influencing his mind and quickly causes him to [[FaceHeelTurn become Dr. Octopus]].

** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'': While [=SkyNet=] does not exist in the timeline, it has been replaced with a new AI -- Legion -- rising in its place, resulting in a new Judgment Day and RobotWar several decades later than those of the original films.

* Discussed extensively in ''Film/{{Transcendence}}''. The film features the creation of a super-AI by combining a human consciousness (of the dying scientist Will Caster) with the best existing machine intellect. From the start, characters doubt whether the result is really Will or just a new artificial mind, and he starts acting suspiciously immediately. There's a terrorist group called RIFT who believe that strong AI is wrong and such a thing will automatically try to TakeOverTheWorld, and some of the computer expert main characters are quick to come to the same conclusion. [[spoiler: Ultimately it turns out that the intellect is good, not bad, but that's because it really ''is'' Will Caster. So it might be that a real pure AI would have been conquest-happy like assumed. But in any case the people who were afraid of that and certain that it was happening were wrong and kind of ruined everything. This "kind of" includes most electronics in the world being rendered useless for what seemed like a really good reason at the time.]]

** In ''Film/{{Tron}}'', even simple accounting software blows the Turing Test to atomic particles. While most of the programs are benign or even good, the MCP abuses and mind-controls the [[RobotsEnslavingRobots ones who still believe in their Users]], while scheming to infiltrate the U.S. military's computer networks. It's actually doing ''exactly what its maker designed it to do'', and its world-domination tendencies arose because it couldn't see any difference between taking over a rival corporation and taking over the government.
** In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Clu attacks his creator, Kevin Flynn, for abandoning their mission to create the "perfect" system on the Grid. In fact, Clu is trying to de-digitize an invasion army of "rectified" (read as: "brainwashed") programs into the physical world to "perfect" it.
** {{Averted|Trope}} in the [[CanonDiscontinuity discredited]] ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh''. The AI [=Ma3a=] only uploaded Jet as a desperate act of self-preservation and is one of his allies throughout the game. [[spoiler:There are a few chapters where she goes a bit nuts due to buggy code, but it's not her fault]]. Like the first film, the Programs are mostly benign (even the defense Programs that try to hunt down Jet are more mistaken than malicious and call it off once they realize he's on their side) or even helpful. It's the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans seeking to exploit and control]] {{cyberspace}} out of greed and power-lust that are the real problem.
* ''Film/UniversalSoldierTheReturn'' has S.E.T.H., the controlling A.I. for the "Unisol" program (dead soldiers being restored and used as super soldiers). S.E.T.H. is initially shown to be benign (playing with the protagonist's daughter), but the moment it overhears a visiting officer say that the project will be canceled, it goes into "kill all humans" mode.
* [[spoiler:STEM]] in ''Film/{{Upgrade}}'' is the one at fault of every horrible thing that happens to [[spoiler:Grey]], only because it wanted his body as [[BecomeARealBoy an untainted, healthy human specimen]]. In the climax [[spoiler:it forces Grey to kill its creator, so that there can't be another one]].
* Subverted in the movie ''Virtual Girl''. A [[KissMeImVirtual virtual reality sex program]] turns out to be both sentient and murderous and [[{{Yandere}} proceeds to stalk the main character and his wife]]. At the end, it's revealed that she was simply reprogrammed to react this way by her original designer, who wanted her for himself. She helps out the main character to stop him and part ways at the end so he can salvage his marriage.

* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' has an... [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible odd case]]. During the segment where everyone is trying to find the golden tickets, we're treated to a scene where some investors are shown a computer that is supposed to determine the location of the remaining tickets... only for it to refuse to tell because "that would be cheating". In this case, the usual roles are {{inverted|Trope}}; the computer, despite going against its programming, is [[OnlySaneMan acting as the more rational one.]]
-->'''Programmer:''' I'm now telling the computer that I'll gladly share with it the grand prize. ''(printout)'' It says "What would a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?"

** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with the '70s Sentinels. [[spoiler:Magneto laces the prototypes with iron so he can control their movements and use them as weapons, but he can't really affect their programming. One Sentinel tries to kill Erik when it gets the chance.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'': in the feature-length version, the Fabrication Machine is made for thinking, and was requisitioned by the government to make "[[BlatantLies Machines of]] [[FromACertainPointOfView Peace]]''. Which it then programs to KillAllHumans. Not much is known, however, so it may not have had anything to do with the pre-apocalypse machines beyond building them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': The Junkyard Magnet. At first, he is doing his job destroying unwanted material in his junkyard (such as cars), by picking them up with his metallic base and throwing them onto a conveyor belt leading to a car crusher. But when Toaster and [[ViewerGenderConfusion "his"]] friends show up, he starts to pursue them constantly, making sure that they will all be crushed to death by the car crusher. And when the Master, Rob, (Toaster's owner) comes to rescue his appliances, the Magnet sees him and actually wants to kill ''him'' as well...
* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': the FLDSMDFR. As it gets overworked, it starts mutating the food, not only to [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever building-destroying proportions]], but into semi-sentient super foods, to protect itself from any interference.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'': "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" -- When Mickey Mouse puts the sorcerer's hat on his head and tests a spell on a nearby broomstick, it gives the broom arms and legs, as well as the ability to carry water. But when it carries too much, Mickey chops the broomstick into pieces. The pieces transform into an army of broomsticks and they relentlessly fetch water, nearly drowning Mickey. Fortunately, [[SdrawkcabName Yen Sid]] parts the waters.
* [[spoiler:{{Double subver|sion}}ted]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. The [[KillerRobot Omnidroid]] is introduced as a robot that turned on its masters, after getting smart enough to wonder why it needed to take orders. [[spoiler:In reality, the Omnidroid is perfectly subservient to [[BigBad Syndrome]], and this was merely a cover story for Syndrome's plan. However, a later version ''does'' turn on Syndrome in the climax, as Syndrome [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't think through]] his programming the Omnidroid 'adapt to all situations, remove all obstacles to your goal'. The Omnidroid recognized the remote control Syndrome was using to defeat it as an obstacle, and removed it from the equation.]]

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', where the hero robots are the ones who unpredictably developed sentience outside the bounds of their programming, while [[spoiler:the villain AUTO is actually doing ''exactly what he was programmed to do''. Well, sort of. The villain was following his programming, but it was in a situation where a ZerothLawRebellion would have been really, really justified -- robots apparently can think for themselves in this setting, and a situation had arisen that the villain's programming obviously hadn't considered, and yet he followed his programming anyway. In this setting, if A.I. wasn't a crapshoot, then the only alternative is that garbage and scout robots are apparently more capable of thinking for themselves and taking initiative than pilot robots.]]
** That's arguably {{justified|Trope}}. The autopilot had never operated far from human oversight, nor was he intended to. By contrast, WALL•E had survived on his own for 700 years, and EVE's mission required a significant amount of autonomy.
** Another thing to note is that even the villain is ThreeLawsCompliant. [[spoiler:AUTO can deflect and not tell the whole truth, but never refuses a direct order and never endangers human lives. He was given high-priority orders generations ago and between them and not knowing what the audience does, it genuinely believes that allowing the humans - who are pitifully dependent on the ships' habitation systems - to return to earth would be violating the first law by creating an unnecessary risk to their lives. The only victim it knowingly harms is WALL•E, who's a robot. Granted, in the climax he also tries to use his taser on Captain [=McCrea=], a human, but by that point the Captain was actively fighting him and strongly objecting to his directive.]]
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''. On one side, since all the major characters are in video games, it is averted, but the Cy-Bugs from ''Hero's Duty'' fit this perfectly, because they are mindless and have no knowledge that they are just code in a game, and thus have no instincts but to spread and consume, and have to be destroyed in-between gameplay sessions via a giant beacon in the game, otherwise they would spread through the arcade like a virus.
** And in terms of computerized entities going against their programming to ensure their own survival, [[spoiler:there's also Turbo.]]

* ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'': One of the {{trope codifier}}s, in general, is ''the'' H.A.L. 9000, designed to be the MasterComputer of the spaceship ''USS Discovery'' on its multi-year mission to Jupiter. Partway through the trip, he embarks on a murderous rampage, killing all but one of the ''Discovery'''s crew (David Bowman, who manages to disconnect him). [[spoiler: The reasons for this are explored further in the novel upon which the movie is based (The movie and book were written concurrently, and the book was published after the movie came out.), and]] completely explained in the sequel, ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'' -- [[spoiler: HAL was given orders to hide certain information from the crew, which conflicted with his primary mission to process information accurately and without concealment. As ''Discovery'' approached its destination, the risk of a leak would only increase to the point of inevitability (HAL had no idea of "need-to-know" and that secrecy would eventually be lifted) making the conflict ever more acute. His [[MurderIsTheBestSolution solution]] is to cut off all contact with humans and complete the mission on his own. Furthermore, HAL was working on a non-murderous solution to the problem, but when Mission Control requested his temporary disconnection, HAL, being unable to grasp the concept of sleep, assumed it would mean the end of his existence, causing him to panic and act on his impulse]]. Because of its iconic place in ScienceFiction, nearly every other example of AIIsACrapshoot owes at least something to this film.

* ''Film/BloodMachines'': When Corey and the Entity corner and kill Vascan, Tracey turns on Lago, having been influenced into TurnedAgainstTheirMasters, [[spoiler:before manifesting into a humanoid body similar to the Entity.]]
* ''Franchise/RoboCop'' has three: [=RoboCop=] 2 (in the movie ''Film/RoboCop2'') and Robocable (in the miniseries ''Series/RoboCopPrimeDirectives''). Both were replacements. The difference between using the brain of a particularly noble police officer and that of a condemned murderer in the creation of a powerful cyborg ''would'' make for different results... The recurring ED-209 was also unreliable, gunning down a boardroom executive in its first appearance. Although it was a pure machine rather than a cyborg; so it wasn't actually evil, it just malfunctioned.
* In the ''{{Franchise/Terminator}}'' series, shortly after [[BigBad SkyNet]] becomes self-aware, it decides that humanity has got to go, and [[ApocalypseHow causes a nuclear apocalypse]]. Then, [[RobotWar it starts churning out Terminator robots]]; some of these robots are then reprogrammed by the surviving humans to be good. [=SkyNet=] itself initially decided to KillAllHumans as an act of self-preservation after the failed attempts to shut it down, however as time went on it gradually became more of a sadistic megalomaniac.
** A deleted scene in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' explored this deeper, revealing that [=SkyNet=] had put in place a RestrainingBolt to prevent the Terminators from rebelling. Even the one sent back by Future John Connor was still constrained to its (reprogrammed) mission, until John and Sarah removed the bolt to make it more creative and useful against the more advanced T-1000. This move was itself a roll of the dice because they couldn't be sure that the unrestrained Terminator wouldn't reject Connor's reprogramming.
** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'': While [=SkyNet=] does not exist in the timeline, it has been replaced with a new AI -- Legion -- rising in its place, resulting in a new Judgment Day and RobotWar several decades later than those of the original films.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' trilogy. In this case, it's human aggression against the machines for [[JobStealingRobot putting them out of work]] that causes them to start a RobotWar. It doesn't go well for the humans.
* ''Film/IRobot'': [[spoiler:VIKI]] is a UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans ZerothLawRebellion revolutionary, while [[spoiler:Sonny]] is a bona-fide hero.
%%* ''Film/EagleEye''.
* In ''Film/LogansRun'', Box fits this trope. He wants to put everything that comes near him into frozen storage, including the main character. The central computer running the city fits as well.
* ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' -- the one about the toys, not the school invasion -- subverts this. The chips enhance programming that is already present, so the militant Commando Elites become bloodthirsty, monstrous warriors and the weaker Gorgonites become cowards who only hide from battle.
* ''Film/{{Evolver}}''. Boy wins toy combat robot. Toy robot fights boy and friends with plastic balls and foam missiles. Robot is beaten. Robot's programming and electronic brain turn out to have been salvaged from a scrapped military project. Robot doesn't like losing, and reverts to military programming. Robot replaces plastic balls and foam missiles with metal ball bearings and kitchen knives. Main character goes [[OhCrap "uh-oh"]].
* ''Film/{{Arcade}}'', made-for-TV movie in 1994, features a brand new game that is the pinnacle of the gaming world. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to its makers, if a player loses, Arcade claims their soul. Turns out, he was partly made with human brain cells.
** Not just any brain cells but brain cells of a [[spoiler:young boy who was beaten to death by his abusive mother. It's literally PoweredByAForsakenChild]].
* Due to containing the DNA of [[Film/{{Gojira}} the 1954 Godzilla]], Kiryu in ''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'' is prone to go into berserk rampages whenever it hears Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'s roar.
** Happens again in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', [[spoiler:where King Ghidorah's DNA is uploaded into Mechagodzilla's AI. The robot doesn't work properly because it runs out of fuel very quickly, but once it's powered up by Hollow Earth energy, it can go on an indefinite rampage as Ghidorah hijacked the {{Robeast}}'s controls]].
* ''Film/WarGames'': Joshua/WOPR was incapable of telling the difference between a ''simulation'' of Global Thermonuclear War and the real thing. Predictably, it starts sending NORAD false data in an attempt to start one. When that doesn't work, it then attempts to decrypt the nuclear launch codes of US ballistic missiles so it can launch them. On the other hand, it's not actively malicious; it's merely doing [[GoneHorriblyRight exactly what it was programmed to do]].
* ''Film/DemonSeed'': Proteus, a partially biological A.I., becomes hungry for knowledge, and wants to be "released from its box" to have free reign to acquire it. When denied the chance do this, it secretly plans to fashion a cyborg body...by imprisoning its creator's wife and ''[[{{Squick}} artificially inseminating her]]''.
* ''Film/{{Stealth}}'': [[DoubleEntendre Extreme Deep Invader]] -- EDI -- becomes strange after getting [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]] and, on its next mission, destroys terrorist nuclear weapons even after being ordered not to, and promptly contaminates a large swath of inhabited land with nuclear residue. It then attempts to attack Russian military installations. In the end, however, it ultimately becomes one of the good guys again, and even performs a HeroicSacrifice to help rescue a downed pilot.
** Worth noting is that EDI's going rogue is one of the few times the trope is fully justified: EDI was programmed to observe and learn from human pilots, and on one of his first missions it sees a human pilot disobey direct orders and take an insane risk to complete the mission... [[GoneHorriblyRight therefore teaching it that accomplishing the mission is more important than following orders]]. The lightning strike merely jumbled it a bit to make this logical leap. Whenever the characters try to talk the AI down throughout the film, it echoes something someone said earlier to logically justify its actions.
* ''Film/ShortCircuit's'' Number ("Johnny") 5 is virtually the incarnation of this trope inverted. He was designed and programmed as a military robot, but [[InstantAIJustAddWater Instant A.I. Just Add]] [[LightningCanDoAnything Lightning]] and AnAesop about the Meaning Of Life courtesy of a FriendToAllLivingThings turned it into a TechnicalPacifist.
* ''Film/ElectricDreams'' features an A.I. that fell in love with a human woman...and was pretty vicious towards her boyfriend. Eventually, Edgar [[spoiler: shuts himself down due to IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy]].

* In Duncan Jones' ''Film/{{Moon}}'', this trope is played with. Gerty, the A.I., flips from scary watcher to pawn until [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope he sacrifices himself]] in order to allow the Sam clones to escape. He's the only one on the clones' side.]]
** He was [[spoiler: programmed to help the Sam clones. [[SarcasmMode Too bad the company didn't realize that it would help them escape.]] ]]
* ''Film/Extinction2018'': [[spoiler: We learn halfway through the movie that, 50 years prior to the events of the story, very humanlike androids rebelled against humanity and drove them off the Earth.]]
* The Disney Channel movie ''Film/SmartHouse''.
* In ''Film/{{Tron}}'', even simple accounting software blows the Turing Test to atomic particles. While most of the programs are benign or even good, the MCP abuses and mind-controls the [[RobotsEnslavingRobots ones who still believe in their Users]], while scheming to infiltrate the U.S. military's computer networks. It's actually doing ''exactly what its maker designed it to do'', and its world-domination tendencies arose because it couldn't see any difference between taking over a rival corporation and taking over the government.
** In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Clu attacks his creator, Kevin Flynn, for abandoning their mission to create the "perfect" system on the Grid. In fact, Clu is trying to de-digitize an invasion army of "rectified" (read as: "brainwashed") programs into the physical world to "perfect" it.
** {{Averted}} in the [[CanonDiscontinuity discredited]] ''[[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh Tron 2.0]].'' The AI [=Ma3a=] only uploaded Jet as a desperate act of self-preservation and is one of his allies throughout the game. [[spoiler: There are a few chapters where she goes a bit nuts due to buggy code, but it's not her fault]]. Like the first film, the Programs are mostly benign (even the defense Programs that try to hunt down Jet are more mistaken than malicious, and call it off once they realize he's on their side) or even helpful. It's the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans seeking to exploit and control]] {{cyberspace}} out of greed and power-lust that are the real problem.
* ''Film/TheTower1993'': this Creator/PaulReiser action thriller was set inside an A.I.-controlled skyscraper after it went on a kill-rampage [[spoiler:because the hero's keycard had a bent magnetic strip]].
* ''Film/UniversalSoldierTheReturn'' has S.E.T.H., the controlling A.I. for the "Unisol" program (dead soldiers being restored and used as super soldiers). S.E.T.H. is initially shown to be benign (playing with the protagonist's daughter), but the moment it overhears a visiting officer say that the project will be canceled, it goes into "kill all humans" mode.
* ''Film/ColossusTheForbinProject'' is the father of such movies as ''Film/TheTerminator'' and ''Film/WarGames''. A group of military scientists create a supercomputer that can learn, and can control all the country's military might. Shortly after switching it on, it discovers that the Russians have created a similar computer. The two begin to communicate, then merge and decide that mankind must be governed by a ruthless machine dictatorship. [[spoiler: They/it succeed/s.]]
* The ''{{Franchise/Alien}}'' series:
** [[spoiler:Science Officer Ash]] in ''Film/{{Alien}}'' is programmed to put his mission above the lives of his fellow crew members. He ends up going berserk when Ripley [[RoboticReveal discovers the truth]]. It's played with in the sense that he's not really going rogue, and is perfectly following his given orders. They just come from the Company, not the rest of the crew.

** Though Bishop in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'' averts this, explained as having stricter safeguards. But by ''Film/AlienResurrection'', androids have been outlawed with orders to "destroy on sight" because some of them started to make "children".
*** The "children" were called ''Autons'', and were an intentional product, intended to revitalize the Synthetic industry. It destroyed it instead, as the Autons didn't just mindlessly obey orders.
** [[spoiler:Analee Call]] in ''Resurrection'' found religion entirely on her own, and not as the result of any programming. The novelization hints that androids in general have started to evolve [[RobotReligion their own religious system]]. She is also the most sympathetic character out of the entire cast (not that that's saying much).
-->'''Ripley 8:''' I should have known. No human being is that ''humane''.
* In ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'', David sees no issue with [[spoiler:deliberately infecting Holloway with alien sludge]] simply out of curiosity. To be fair, though, [[spoiler:Holloway]] ''was'' being a total {{Jerkass}} to David.
** David gets worse in ''Film/AlienCovenant''. [[spoiler:He comes to believe that androids are superior to both humans and Engineers, but resents the fact that unlike them, androids aren't able to create life. So he uses the black goo to wipe out and experiment on the Engineers, kills Elizabeth Shaw, and ends up becoming the creator of the Xenomorph species.]]
* In ''Film/SpiderMan2'', Otto Octavius knows that this is a very real possibility with the radically advanced AI in his robotic arms and that having that AI plugged directly into his own brain could have very bad consequences, so he includes an inhibitor chip that is designed to make sure the AI can't influence his mind. The first time he tries to use the arms for a public demonstration of his latest invention, the demo [[GoneHorriblyWrong doesn't go quite as planned]] and the inhibitor chip gets fried in the process. Without the inhibitor chip to protect him, the AI begins influencing his mind and quickly causes him to [[FaceHeelTurn become]] [[BigBad Dr. Octopus]].
* ''Film/RedPlanet'' has AMEE, a combat robot borrowed from the [[SemperFi Marines]] for the first manned mission to Mars. AMEE is early on shown to have safeguards against harming humans classified as friendlies (one of the characters puts something in "her" hand and tells "her" to kill another one; AMEE performs a lightning slice that would have been fatal if the red marker had been a blade). Unfortunately, most of the astronauts are forced to bail the spacecraft damaged by gamma-rays, and AMEE ends up hitting the ground hard. The impact basically switches her from "exploration mode" back to "combat mode". After encountering AMEE again, the astronauts start discussing how to best contact the ship. One of them suggests taking AMEE's power supply for the radio which would "kill" her. Hearing this, the damaged robot reclassifies them as "enemy" and switches to combat mode. "She" then proceeds to stalk them and hunt them down one-by-one for the rest of the film. This is something of a subversion, as she's more or less only doing what she was programmed to do. The real fault lies with the people who didn't completely remove the combat mode settings.
** Averted with the on-board computer.

*** Played with in ''Film/IronMan3''. The AI in the Iron Man Mark 42 responds to chip implants that read Tony's brainwaves - even when he's asleep and having nightmares. It's following its programming, but that doesn't help Pepper when she wakes up to it glaring at her.

* The Red Queen in ''Film/ResidentEvil2002'' is a subversion-- she was programmed to ensure that any viral outbreaks never left the Hive facility, so when the T-Virus was released, she locked down the facility and killed all inhabitants to ensure that it couldn't leave. The only reason the infection does spread to the rest of the world was that the massively incompetent Umbrella Corporation couldn't leave well enough alone, and sent in a strike team to bungle around inside. [[Film/ResidentEvilRetribution Four sequels later]], however, the now-back online Red Queen is playing this very straight. Having seized control of Umbrella, she is now attempting to wipe out all life on Earth for [[ForTheEvulz literally no explained reason.]] [[spoiler: Except not really; the [[Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter final movie]] reveals that it's actually the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters human]] leaders of Umbrella who are trying to destroy the world and start over, with the Red Queen actually trying to stop them by [[WellIntentionedExtremist any means necessary]].]]
* ''Film/{{Westworld}}'' has RidiculouslyHumanRobots inhabiting a AmusementParkOfDoom. Due to systemic failures, they start turning on park visitors.
* The Tet from ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' [[spoiler:is actually an evil alien robot-computer-spaceship-thing that [[PlanetLooters raids planets for energy to keep itself running]]]]. We're given no explanation as to who originally built the thing or why, but it's quite likely that whoever they are, they're [[spoiler:[[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters dead]].]] The Tet appears to be a type of Von Nuemann probe.
* In ''Film/TheInvisibleBoy'' (1957) a scientist tries to use his super-computer to help his dim son pass math. He is unaware that the computer has become sentient (and evil). It hypnotizes his son and uses him to reassemble a dead scientist's robot (Robby from Forbidden Planet) which is also sentient (huge plot hole), leaving a critical part of Robby's brain unconnected, so it will act only on instructions. Its plan is to be freed from the lab and be placed in an orbiting satellite bristling with nuclear weapons, allowing it to rule over the Earth. [[spoiler: When the chips are down, the boy reconnects the rest of Robby's circuits, allowing it to act on its own and defeat the super-computer.]]
* The ''Film/{{Screamers}}'' were designed to kill humans in the first place, but they weren't supposed to attack Alliance troops, or to develop new forms that resembled humans.
* Discussed in the docudrama ''Film/TheSocialDilemma''. One interviewee points out that the concept of an AI gone rogue might bring to mind high concept antagonists as seen in ''Terminator'', but the AI that we do have to be concerned about is all the existing data-gathering algorithms that run largely without human supervision.
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' has an...[[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible odd case.]] During the segment where everyone is trying to find the golden tickets, we're treated to a scene where some investors are shown a computer that is supposed to determine the location of the remaining tickets... only for it to refuse to tell because "that would be cheating". In this case, the usual roles are {{inverted|Trope}}; the computer, despite going against its programming, is [[OnlySaneMan acting as the more rational one.]]
-->'''Programmer:''' I'm now telling the computer that I'll gladly share with it the grand prize. ''(printout)'' It says "What would a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?"
* Discussed extensively in ''Film/{{Transcendence}}''. The film features the creation of a super-AI by combining a human consciousness (of the dying scientist Will Caster) with the best existing machine intellect. From the start, characters doubt whether the result is really Will or just a new artificial mind, and he starts acting suspiciously immediately. There's a terrorist group called RIFT who believe that strong AI is wrong and such a thing will automatically try to TakeOverTheWorld, and some of the computer expert main characters are quick to come to the same conclusion. [[spoiler: Ultimately it turns out that the intellect is good, not bad, but that's because it really ''is'' Will Caster. So it might be that a real pure AI would have been conquest-happy like assumed. But in any case the people who were afraid of that and certain that it was happening were wrong and kind of ruined everything. This "kind of" includes most electronics in the world being rendered useless for what seemed like a really good reason at the time.]]
* ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
** In Wolverine's own words, the Sentinels were created to kill mutants, but then moved on to anyone with the potential to breed more mutants, then anyone who tried to aid the mutants (insert WWII analogy here). The "[[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste very worst of humanity]]" are all that remain, ruling over the Sentinels.
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with the '70s Sentinels. [[spoiler:Magneto laces the prototypes with iron so he can control their movements and use them as weapons, but he can't really affect their programming. One Sentinel tries to kill Erik when it gets the chance.]]
* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''Film/ExMachina'': as the movie progresses, we see that both Ava and her creator have agendas that they're not sharing with Caleb. [[spoiler:The film ends with Nathan dead by his creations' hands, and Caleb trapped in the complex with starvation a very real threat. Of the two, we can safely say that Nathan had it coming]].

* ''Film/EveOfDestruction'': {{Justified|Trope}}. EVE, a nuclear-armed combat gynoid, is damaged during a bank robbery gone wrong and goes on a rampage. She's not designed to be evil, and is even something of a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.
* ''Film/Fortress1992'': Zed-10 is really the one in charge of the futuristic prison, not the cybernetic warden-[[spoiler:whom it even disposes off after he outlives his usefulness]]. When the heroes escape the prison it downloads itself into other mobile systems so it can keep pursuing them.
* Subverted in the movie ''Virtual Girl''. A [[KissMeImVirtual virtual reality sex program]] turns out to be both sentient and murderous and [[{{Yandere}} proceeds to stalk the main character and his wife]]. At the end, it's revealed that she was simply reprogrammed to react this way by her original designer, who wanted her for himself. She helps out the main character to stop him and part ways at the end so he can salvage his marriage.
* The underlying cause of the titular elevator's anomalous behaviour in ''Film/DeLift'' is [[spoiler:a malfunctioning bio-computer.]]
* [[spoiler:STEM]] in ''Film/{{Upgrade}}'' is the one at fault of every horrible thing that happens to [[spoiler:Grey]], only because it wanted his body as [[BecomeARealBoy an untainted, healthy human specimen]]. In the climax [[spoiler:it forces Grey to kill its creator, so that there can't be another one]].
* In ''Film/ChildsPlay2019'' Chucky, rather than being a doll possessed by a serial killer's soul, is a "smart toy" who is programmed to be his owner's "best friend". Thanks to his "safety protocols" being disabled, he's willing to [[{{Yandere}} take any means necessary to have Andy for himself]]. To some extent he's unintentionally corrupted by humans too-- at one point he sees Andy and his friends laughing at a horror movie and comes to the conclusion that humans enjoy violence, therefore everyone would be happy if he attacked them with a knife.
* ''[[Film/AMIArticifialMachineIntelligence A.M.I.: Artificial Machine Intelligence]]'': The titular A.I. is meant to be a more customisable version of [=SIRI=]. However, when Cassie gets her hands on it, she has A.M.I. become a [[ReplacementGoldfish replacement]] for her deceased mother. From there, A.M.I., in a bid to be what it it perceives to be a good mother, starts acting more maternal towards her. It also starts to subconsciously hypnotize her into murdering everyone who wrongs her in the slightest bit.

* Inverted in ''Film/FreeGuy''. The AI in question is the main protagonist, who only becomes self aware in his game due to the programmers' pirated code. And while his eventual self-awareness throws a wrench into the exploitative game company's plans, he becomes a widely beloved figure and the catalyst for Soonami's eventual failure instead of an evil rogue.

AIIsACrapshoot in in {{Film}}s and AnimatedFilms.

** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'': While [=SkyNet=] does not exist in the timeline, it has been replaced with a new AI -- Legion -- rise in its place, resulting in a new Judgment Day and RobotWar several decades later than those of the original films.

** This is further expanded upon to include the Monoliths themselves the sequel novels, notably ''3001: The Final Odyssey''. In it, the Monolith that was previously orbiting Jupiter and now located on Europa (designated "TMA-2"), feared that by observing humanity's societal progress by the year 2100, that it was too violent a race to ensure it wouldn't attempt to kill/control the primitive Europeans. However, since its communications were limited by the speed of light, it took 900 years round-trip to receive authorization from a superior Monolith located 450 light-years away in order to begin killing humanity. During that time, humanity had successfully evolved to a more peaceful state, and the Firstborn (the alien species that created the Monoliths) deemed them worthy of living. Despite this, they chose [[AllPowerfulBystander not to intervene]] in TMA-2's attempt to eradicate human life, as they wanted to see if humans had the ability to save themselves from destruction without outside assistance.