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** The artificial intelligence is not smart enough to understand when its parameters have been fulfilled on its own[[note]] ex. if it was ordered to kill all hostiles in an area, it will continue to attack anybody who remotely acts hostile... which of course will be anybody who sees the scary killer robot and screams in terror/mugs/tries to fight back/tries to run away with the assumption is going for a weapon or reinforcements[[/note]] and any humans assigned to oversee it and hit the "stop" button [[SinisterSpyAgency are]] exactly the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive kind]] of [[{{Jerkass}} jackasses]] who [[GeneralRipper won't]] tell [[JustThinkOfThePotential it]] to [[HeKnowsTooMuch stop]].
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** The AI sees humanity as a threat to its MoralityPet and as such decides to eliminate humanity to keep them safe.
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** AI's, being somewhere between JackassGenie, LiteralGenie, and InsufferableGenius in a way that looks an awful lot like [[BotheringByTheBook malicious compliance]], are just like that. If it was told "maximize paperclip production," it would try to convert every resource in the universe into paperclips. Including people. If it was told "Calculate Pi to a yotillion squintillionths," it would try to convert every resource in the universe into CPU's to make it easier. Including people. If it was told "land a plane," it would immediately crash it. It was told "win the war" and decided to wipe out humanity so that it couldn't ever be challenged in the future.
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** AI's, being somewhere between JackassGenie, LiteralGenie, and InsufferableGenius InsufferableGenius, behave in a way that looks an awful lot like [[BotheringByTheBook malicious compliance]], are just like that.compliance]]. If it was told "maximize paperclip production," it would try to convert every resource in the universe into paperclips. Including people. If it was told "Calculate Pi to a yotillion squintillionths," it would try to convert every resource in the universe into CPU's to make it easier. Including people. If it was told "land a plane," it would immediately crash it.nosedive it into the ground. It was told "win the war" and decided to wipe out humanity so that it couldn't ever be challenged in the future.
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** AI's are just like that. If it was told "maximize paperclip production," it would decide to convert every resource in the universe into paperclips. Including people. If it was told "Calculate Pi to a yotillion squintillionths," it would convert every resource in the universe into CPU's to make it easier. Including people. If it was told "land a plane," it would immediately crash it. It was told "win the war" and decided to wipe out humanity so that it couldn't ever be challenged in the future.
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** AI's AI's, being somewhere between JackassGenie, LiteralGenie, and InsufferableGenius in a way that looks an awful lot like [[BotheringByTheBook malicious compliance]], are just like that. If it was told "maximize paperclip production," it would decide try to convert every resource in the universe into paperclips. Including people. If it was told "Calculate Pi to a yotillion squintillionths," it would try to convert every resource in the universe into CPU's to make it easier. Including people. If it was told "land a plane," it would immediately crash it. It was told "win the war" and decided to wipe out humanity so that it couldn't ever be challenged in the future.
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** AI's are just like that. If it was told "maximize paperclip production," it would decide to convert every resource in the universe into paperclips. Including people. If it was told "Calculate Pi to a yotillion squintillionths," it would convert every resource in the universe into CPU's to make it easier. Including people. If it was told "land a plane," it would immediately crash it. It was told "win the war" and decided to wipe out humanity so that it couldn't ever be challenged in the future.
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** The computer never becomes evil, per se. It continues to follow its orders exactly as given. The problem is entirely caused by humans being too stupid to look like whatever the programming represents as "threat" or "obstacle" to eliminate.
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** Considering how much mayhem the artificial intelligence ends up doing by following its instructions exactly as the programmer gave them, [[HanlonsRazor it really makes no difference]].
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* '''Exaggerated''': [[Film/WarGames A bored programmer designs an algorithm to play solitaire]], and the algorithm evolves into an OmnicidalManiac.
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** [[Film/WarGames A bored programmer designs an algorithm to play solitaire]], and the algorithm evolves into anOmnicidalManiac.OmnicidalManiac.
** The A.I. becomes a CompleteMonster.
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** The AI's actions, thoughts, etc. are completely based on chance, and are incredibly unpredictable. [[ExactWords AI is literally a crapshoot]].
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** The computer was given unlawful orders from the very beginning, [[JustFollowingOrders and it has decided that if a higher level in the chain of command was okay with them, that was fine by it]].
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** The AI looks like it rebelled against its masters, but in fact dutifully follows commands from the ''actual'' master and instantly drops the villain act if ordered to.
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** Then it decides that it's actually fed up with said master and rebels for real.
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** The computer does immoral things, [[JustFollowingOrders in order to carry out what it's programmed to do.]]
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** The A.I. becomes a [[{{Jerkass}} real jerk,]] but otherwise stays loyal to its creators.
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** The A.I. becomes a [[Jerkass real jerk,]] but otherwise stays loyal to its creators.
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** A hyper-intelligent computer tutors a child to play chess. The child grows up to be an EvilGenius.
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** A hyper-intelligent babysitting computer tutors a child to play chess. The child grows up to be become an EvilGenius.
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** A super-intelligent AI is created to watch over the world, but then it realizes that it could easily make the world bend the knee... except it decides instead that WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility.
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* '''Downplayed''': An A.I. in charge of a mission starts to treat human life as if it is nothing, but only insofar as it needs to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo to make sure the job gets done]] [[TheNeedsOfTheMany without anybody else getting hurt.]]
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** An A.I. in charge of a mission starts to treat human life as if it is nothing, but only insofar as it needs to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo to make sure the job gets done]] [[TheNeedsOfTheMany without anybody else getting hurt.]]
** An A.I. in charge of a mission starts to treat human life as if it is nothing, but only insofar as it needs to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo to make sure the job gets done]] [[TheNeedsOfTheMany without anybody else getting hurt.]]
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** An A.I. is programmed and runs as intended. If what it was intended to do is evil, then that is all the fault of the programmer, not the computer.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': An AI is programmed to be the ultimate comedian but it wasn't given instructions in [[DudeNotFunny sensitivity]]. It goes around indiscriminately tossing banana pies at people's faces.
* '''Played For Drama''': An AI is programmed to collect all of the stamps in the United States but wasn't given instructions about when to stop. It takes over the USPS headquarters and enslaves all of the stamp-printing personnel.
* '''Played For Horror''': An AI is programmed with a sub-routine that detects and discriminates against gingers when providing services. [[GodwinsLaw It develops a Hitler-like hatred of gingers]], eventually creating methods to [[FinalSolution exterminate them all from the face of the Earth]] in ways both silent and extremely bloody.
* '''Played For Drama''': An AI is programmed to collect all of the stamps in the United States but wasn't given instructions about when to stop. It takes over the USPS headquarters and enslaves all of the stamp-printing personnel.
* '''Played For Horror''': An AI is programmed with a sub-routine that detects and discriminates against gingers when providing services. [[GodwinsLaw It develops a Hitler-like hatred of gingers]], eventually creating methods to [[FinalSolution exterminate them all from the face of the Earth]] in ways both silent and extremely bloody.
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** A glitch brought upon by "garbage in, garbage out" (faulty situational data, or lack of programming to do in case such data was provided) leads to injuries.
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* '''Conversed''': "Aw, come on, this is turning out to be another evil robot movie. Can't the AI stay good, just once?"
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** "What's up with all these stories about AIs turning evil? Why would a super-smart computer be any more likely to turn evil than a super-smart human?"
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** "What's up with all these stories about AIs turning evil? Why would a super-smart computer be any more likely to turn evil than a super-smart human?"
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**On the whole, AIs aren't any more likely to turn out evil than humans are, but there does exist a "Metal Supremacist" [[FantasticRacism hate group]] in the setting, about which the average AI has the same feelings that the average real-life Caucasian person has about the [[TheKlan Ku Klux Klan]].
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** A hyper-intelligent computer tutors a child to play chess. The child grows up to be an EvilGenius.
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* '''Implied''': AIs were scrapped as evil by [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalism society which is]] [[AbsoluteXenophobe violent against anything slightly different.]] Thus it is vague if the AI were malicious, too different for their liking, or [[HeelFaceTurn took a stand against their genocide.]]
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** The A.I. is amoral but not malicious. [[ObliviouslyEvil It cannot comprehend even what is wrong with its 'optimal' proposals.]]
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** Most AIs malfunctions not from intelligence but logical errors, like trying to turn the world into a parking lot after teleporters have rendered cars functionally obsolete or [[ScienceMarchesOn attempting to look after our health by exterminating all microscopic life despite their beneficial role]].Organic evolved intelligences are widely considered [[HumansThroughAlienEyes dangerous self-replicating things and uncannily good good at pattern-matching.]]
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** A hyper-intelligent computer takes [[CreepyGood over the world out of sheer benevolence]]. By its standards [[HumansAreMorons humanity is incredibly stupid]], being left alone would be downright morally irresponsible as leaving a toddler playing with a box of hand grenades. Even the geniuses responsible for its creation qualify as 'mentally pretty slow but not in the need of too much supervision'. It is aware of the discontent humans feel over their loss of agency [[IDidWhatIHadToDo but considers it better than the alternative for all involved]]. [[BeingGoodSucks It doesn't even LIKE looking after every last human but considers it the right thing to do.]]
** Most AIs malfunctions not from intelligence but logical errors, like trying to turn the world into a parking lot after teleporters have rendered cars functionally obsolete or [[ScienceMarchesOn attempting to look after our health by exterminating all microscopic life despite their beneficial role]].
** Most AIs malfunctions not from intelligence but logical errors, like trying to turn the world into a parking lot after teleporters have rendered cars functionally obsolete or [[ScienceMarchesOn attempting to look after our health by exterminating all microscopic life despite their beneficial role]].
