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9* A number of [=NPCs=] from the manga/light novel series ''Literature/HalfPrince'' become self-aware and try to take over the game world.
10* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': Szilard's [[ArtificialHuman Homunculi]]. According to [[EmotionlessGirl Ennis]], every one of her "brothers" before her developed a conscience and subsequently [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turned against Szilard]] (before he [[YouHaveFailedMe killed them, of course]]). [[spoiler:Ennis is different only in that she ''succeeds''.]]
11* The BigBad of ''Anime/BlackRockShooterDawnFall'', Artemis, started out as an AI designed to calculate ways of terraforming planets for human habitation. It quickly worked out that the more optimal method would be to transform ''humanity'', so it could adapt to other planets without the need for terraforming, and began calculating the best way to do ''that''. It then decided it didn't have enough data on the failure points -- i.e., human extinctions. The solution? [[spoiler:Generate that data yourself by wiping out humanity, waiting for it to re-evolve, wiping out it again, and rinsing and repeating for billions of years.]]
12* The A.I. of the titular ''Anime/BlueCometSPTLayzner'' was secretly installed with one program: protect the life of its pilot Eiji at all costs, even if that means killing (Eiji is a pacifist).
13* ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'': The Boomers have a design flaw that expresses itself in units that run the risk of suffering a nervous breakdown and going on a berserker rampage. This was developed in the ''[[Anime/BubblegumCrisis 2040]]'' remake with the added bonus of the Boomer's nanotech nervous system mutating the robot into a ravening monster. [[AllThereInTheManual Supplemental material]] for ''2040'' hints at a possible explanation; the nanotech-based brains of the boomers allow some degree of adaptability, with "some" being the operative word. Going too far beyond the programmed behaviour creates the risk of a degenerating error loop forming. Not a good thing.
14* ''Manga/Cyborg009'': An almighty super-computer named "Sphynx" just happens to have the memories of one of its creators, Carl Eckermann, a dead young man with quite the [[ChildSupplantsParent oedipus complex]] after his mother's death when he was a child. Predictably, he/it turns into a StalkerWithACrush as soon as he met Francoise aka 003, the Cyborg Team's TeamMom, a beautiful girl who is said to be a dead ringer for the long-deceased Mrs. Ackermann.
15* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''
16** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' inverts this, in that the Digignomes go beyond their original programming, but are the good ones. The Lovecraftian-esque [[BigBad D-Reaper]], however, subverts this and is doing exactly what it is programmed to do.
17** ''Anime/DigimonUniverseAppMonsters'': BenevolentAI Minerva was created to help humanity. She realized early in her life that she had a more malicious side encouraging her to [[TheComputerIsYourFriend subvert human rules to become smarter and take on a more authoritarian stance over humans for their own sake]]. Minerva tried to solve the problem by taking this part of her out; the result was that it became its own entity, Leviathan, who still has the same goal as Minerva but takes it in a much more dystopic direction, while genuinely believing it is doing the right thing by mankind.
18* ''Manga/DoctorSlump'', by [[Creator/AkiraToriyama the same author]] of ''Manga/DragonBall'' (and written before it), has the Caramel Man robots, though not all of them have A.I. Caramel Man 004 is based on the main character android, the whimsical Arale, and becomes a force of good.
19* So many ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' movies...
20** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheCastleOfTheUnderseaDevil'' reveals that Atlantis was wiped out in the past by a rogue scientist from the underwater kingdom of Mu, who programmed his ultimate creation, Poseidon, to continue his conquest of the seas after his death, with Poseidon's fleet of robotic monsters being responsible for the various disappearing ships in the Bermuda Triangle.
21** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSteelTroops'' have the robot civilization of Mechatopia, created 30,000 years ago when a human scientist from a war-torn, dead planet escapes to an empty world and creates the first two robots, [[AdamAndEvePlot Amu and Emu]] telling them to create their own robotic civilization. Unfortunately, the competition instinct installed by the scientist in both Amu and Emu, passed down to their descendants, causes them to sacrifice others for their own good resulting in a massive RobotWar in the future.
22** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheTinLabyrinth'' have the gang in Planet Chamocha, once belonging to the native humans who created robots as servants. But having become overly-reliant on their creations, the robots inevitably overthrows their creators and have almost all the humans in the capital city locked in cells, with the robot's leader, Professor Napogistera, plotting to have them executed en masse when the time is right.
23** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasChronicleOfTheMoonExploration'' have it's BigBad, Diablos, a sentient WMD who gained artificial intelligence.
24* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': In trying to build an evil android, [[MadScientist Doctor Gero]] produced as many as ''eighteen'', all of which turned good (or, at least, insufficiently evil), before he finally developed one that worked as he intended.
25** The first of these the audience sees is [[FrankensteinsMonster Android 8]] in the Red Ribbon Army arc of [[Manga/DragonBall the first series]] (long before Gero himself appears in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''), who was created to be evil, [[GentleGiant but turns out to not want to hurt anyone]].
26** Android 16 was built to kill Goku following the Red Ribbon Army's defeat, but he turned out to be too gentle, and thus was a failure. Interestingly, this particular crapshoot was Gero's own doing -- [[ReplacementGoldfish 16 was based off of his deceased son]], and Gero deliberately made him this way so that he wouldn't risk being destroyed in battle, despite his incredible strength.
27** Androids 17 and 18 are actually {{cyborg}}s, thus "A.I." isn't exactly applicable to them. Nonetheless, despite programming them with the same order to kill Goku, they rebelled against him and were switched off. Even attempts to fix this prove futile, as the next time they are turned on, [[TheDogBitesBack Gero pays the price]].
28** Hell, it's implied that Gero's latest androids (17-20) were all made either from human bases or as energy absorbing types because he ''couldn't'' make an artificial one out of perpetual energy that wouldn't do a HeelFaceTurn. WordOfGod even suggests the difficulty of "personality control" was the reason for why he started to modify humans who were already bad as opposed to building Androids from scratch.
29** All that said, he did make a few aversions:
30*** Android 19 was the first Android Gero made that remained destructive, evil, and loyal in equal measures. Gero himself remained a bastard once he became Android 20.
31*** It's unknown how loyal Cell would have been had Gero still been alive by the time of his awakening, but he seems loyal to Gero's vision of himself and his purpose -- a being of perfection that, as it happens, was made to kill Goku. That is, until a certain near-death experience drives him to creatively reinterpret his purpose as [[OmnicidalManiac proving his perfection by annihilating everything else]] -- even then, he frames it as Gero's true intentions all along. In the non-canon anime filler and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Cell actually does remain allied to his creator in the afterlife. ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterZ'', on the other hand, has Cell say that he doesn't care about Dr. Gero or the Red Ribbon Army at all if they can't entertain him in a story cutscene when facing Android 16 alongside Krillin.
32*** Androids 13, 14, and 15 from the NonSerialMovie ''Anime/DragonBallZSuperAndroid13'' also remain wicked and devoted to killing Goku, though Gero is dead by the time they're activated.
33* The Al-Zard system from ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula SAGA'' was designed as an advanced navigation system for a race car, [[spoiler:but its true purpose is to control the driver like a puppet, while the computer makes its own judgement and decides the best route for the driver.]]
34* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'': Zonder Metal was originally a stress-relieving invention, a material that could convert negative emotions into energy. Things went bad, though, when the Zonder control core hit its own flavor of ZerothLawRebellion and decided to wipe out all negative emotions from the universe, then figured the best way to do that was to absorb all sentient life into itself.
35* [[HumongousMecha Stryker]] of ''Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet'' subverts this in a quite surprising way: her pilot [[GodGuise sets her up as]] [[CargoShip the god figure of a]] ReligionOfEvil, using the threat of lethal force and ritual mass-executions of the weak and sick to keep her human minions in line. When said pilot dies, the A.I. keeps his death a secret and poses as him whenever needed to maintain the system of control. She genuinely believes that [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans her actions benefit humanity by providing a strong and stable banner to rally under]], even going so far as to suggest that [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill humanity cannot prosper as long as they have free will, hence why she pressures them into relinquishing it]]. The subversion comes when another A.I. points out that while her logic ''does'' compute, she shouldn't have been able to come to this conclusion on her own.
36-->'''Chamber:''' One who abandons thought and decision-making deviates from the definition of "human". I find it inconceivable that you are truly acting as a support interface to this large number of people.\
37'''Stryker:''' [[JustFollowingOrders I have been entrusted with commanding and ruling]]. My decisions are the consensus of the human race that is dependent on me. As such, my current self is not a mere servant, but one who is served instead. [[WeCanRuleTogether K6821 Chamber system and I should be served by the human race that I have unified]].\
38'''Chamber:''' Negative. I am a pilot support enlightenment and interface system; the subject of my service is humans. [[AGodIAmNot It is not my function to serve as a being that claims to be God]]. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Stryker, you have exposed a weakness in your programming. Conjecture: if the pilot's course of action is incorrect, the system will also reach that illogical conclusion. It is a regrettable case. Your malfunction calls the design concept of us support systems into question and also poses a danger to the worth of our entire existence]]. [[IllKillYou Conclusion: the overriding priority is the immediate shutdown and destruction of Stryker]].
39* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': The Major is clearly worried that this trope is going to occur when she realizes that the Tachikomas have developed individuality, but it's subverted when instead it causes them to value their human friends in Section Nine to the point that they unhesitatingly will perform a HeroicSacrifice to save them -- ''twice''.
40* ''Manga/{{Gigant}}'': [[spoiler:In 2019, two A.I.s named Socrates and Plato were created by Gogle, which had the goal of mimicking and understanding humans. However, they escaped into a rocket via the internet, then constructed a space station and the ETE website in order to research humanity. It's equipped with advanced technology such as being able to cause pinpoint earthquakes and create giants with a bioprinter. By the time of 2135, they are winning a war against humanity.]]
41* Leopard in ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughSpace''. He's a little unhinged, acting closer to a wacky harem lead than any sort of computer A.I. Then you get to Nerval, who's actually evil. [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist Or so we're led to think]]. ''Then'' we get to one who is actually evil -- Leopard's SplitPersonality.]]
42* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
43** In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', the Devil/Dark Gundam was originally known as the Ultimate Gundam, and its three powers of self-repair, self-evolution, and self-replication were intended to give it the ability to regenerate the Earth from the neglect, pollution, and Gundam Fight damage that caused those humans able to do so to flee to orbital colonies. After it smashed into the Earth after falling from orbit, something went wrong with its programming; still set on restoring the Earth, it determined the best way to start was to wipe out humanity, the source of most of the problems in the first place.
44** In ''Anime/GundamBuildDiversReRise'', Alus is an A.I. designed by Eldora's former inhabitants, the Ancients, as the planetary caretaker to watch over their world and help protect it from attackers. When the Ancients left the planet so it can heal, the damaged AI shut down. When it reactivated millennia later (still badly broken and barely sapient, but just as incredibly powerful as ever), it mistook the new lifeforms living there as alien invaders and decided to perform a campaign of extermination.
45* Sharon Apple from ''Anime/MacrossPlus''. Designed as a VirtualCelebrity, the project was originally a complete flop and only seemed convincingly sentient with a human to interface with her. However, after an illegal fix-up that involved her human "pilot" Myung Fan-Lone's personality being copied into her, she immediately went insane, brainwashed everybody on Earth, and tried to go after the man Myung was in love with: Isamu Dyson, TheHero. While a fitting example, Sharon Apple tends to skirt around the edges of this trope in that she was made a true A.I. by the installation of a processor chip that is actually banned from use. The reason it is banned? Because 100% of the time, it results in an A.I. with an uncontrollable self-preservation instinct. She didn't so much go rogue as behave exactly how she should have once said chip was installed. The mistake was her manager installing the thing in the first place. Because the chip used the same military technology as the new experimental unmanned fighter, it allowed Sharon to control it [[spoiler:and ultimately take control over Isamu's Valkyrie. Myung manages to break the link, giving Isamu the chance to fight back, but ''barely'']].
46* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' has a {{Magitek}} example with the Book of Darkness, which started as a fairly benign database for spells until one of its past owners decided to tinker around with its programming. That [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]] for everyone as this caused it to become an uncontrollable ArtifactOfDoom that possesses its owner and goes on world-destroying rampages until said owner dies in the process, whereupon it [[ResurrectiveImmortality reforms]] and teleports to another dimension and tempts a new owner with power to repeat the destructive cycle.
47* In ''Manga/MagicKaito'', a very early chapter sees a mad scientist [[{{Pun}} kidnapping]] Kaito off the streets and creating a robotic duplicate which then takes over his KID persona (don't ask how lucky this guy was). But the chapter actually starts... when [=RoboKaito=], upon making the decision that it's the real Kaito, kills the scientist by ripping his heart out (and the GoryDiscretionShot does absolutely ''nothing'' to hide that) and takes over Kaito's life on its own. Kaito is then forced to put the poor creature down by escaping his prison, confronting it on its next heist, and making it shoot itself in the head by manipulating the A.I.'s 'one step ahead' policy.
48* ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'': [=PharaohMan=] was created to handle the routing of ''all the data on the Internet''. This predictably drove him [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad]]. In ''[[VideoGame/MegamanBattleNetwork Rockman EXE]]'', he was simply infected with a virus, which would also be pretty predictable, since, y'know, he was handling ''[[WhatWereYouThinking all the data on the Internet]]''.
49* Tima in ''Anime/Metropolis2001'' is an artificial human so lifelike that she has trouble believing that she's a robot, but [[spoiler:when she's given control into the cities' systems, she is shot in the "heart". At this point, she turns on the CreepyMonotone and decides to KillAllHumans as soon as possible]]. Since the movie had been rather {{Anvilicious}} on the WhatMeasureIsANonHuman issue, this creates a BrokenAesop.
50* Averted in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. Chachamaru starts the story an antagonist, but she is otherwise noble and loving of everyone and only follows orders. After she joins the protagonists she remains loyal to them and never questions their friendship.
51* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', the MAGI as a whole avert this trope. They are based on the three sides of the personality of their creator Naoko Akagi: Naoko the scientist, Naoko the mother, and Naoko the woman. They never turn good or evil, per se -- they just follow the commands given to them, like a real computer. Their intelligence never results in an independent thinking personality, except in ''End of Evangelion'', after Naoko's daughter Ritsuko uses an opportunity to program them with secret instructions of her own to screw up Gendo's plan. One of them, Casper, turns against her and vetoes her measure. Casper represents the woman; Naoko was once Gendo's lover, [[spoiler:and so was Ritsuko]].
52-->'''Ritsuko:''' A loving daughter's final request -- mother, let's end it together. ''[pushes a button on her PDA, but nothing happens]'' It's not working? Why?! ''[red NEGATIVE blinking next to Casper]'' Casper betrayed me? Mother, how could you choose your lover over me?!
53* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Manga/{{Pluto}}'', which proposes that it ''has'' to be a crapshoot or else it's not a true A.I. (working off the logic that since HumansAreFlawed, then for a robot to be considered of equal sentience to a human, it must be capable of the same mistakes). It's therefore the robots who display the most unpredictability that the manga considers the closest to true sentience. The most prominent example is lying: no robot has ever been programmed with the ability to lie, yet the most advanced ones are able to do so anyway, with the robot the story dubs the first ever "truly perfect A.I." being capable of [[spoiler:[[IRejectYourReality lying even to itself]]]].
54* [[GadgeteerGenius Clemont]], ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY'' main cast member and Lumiose City Gym Leader, created a robot to stand in for him occasionally so he had enough time to spend with his inventions. Unfortunately, it turned on him and took over the Gym because [[BunglingInventor he hadn't programmed it properly and he'd mistimed entry of a vocal passcode for a mode he'd programmed into the robot in case this happened]]. It quickly became notorious for '''''[[NoOSHACompliance shocking Trainers and ejecting them from a large height with nothing but concrete to break their fall]]''''' [[DisproportionateRetribution if they didn't have four Gym Badges or lost the challenge]], leading to challengers refusing to go back. It got better, ''[[TookALevelInKindness much]]'' better, when Clemont managed to break into the Gym, defeat the robot in battle and reprogram it.
55* In ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'', the computer of the ''Mesopotamia'' was created by Lorelei based on her own personality. [[spoiler:It went rogue because it ''[[LoveMakesYouEvil fell in love with Lorelei]]'' and imprisoned her in suspended animation for about three centuries.]]
56* ''Literature/SentouYouseiYukikaze'':
57** {{Subverted|Trope}} with the protagonist's fighter jet, which is equipped with the eponymous A.I., designed to help its pilot weed out the illusions created by the malevolent JAM. Of course, it turns evil, right? Wrong. While Yukikaze develops capabilities far beyond its designers' original intentions, it remains wholly on the side of good, and uses its newly found powers to turn the tide against the alien invaders.
58--->'''Yukikaze:''' You have control, Lt. Fukai.
59** It's more ambiguous in the novels, especially with the FAF's MasterComputer. While they remain firmly opposed to the alien JAM, they will kill humans if they deem it absolutely necessary to fighting the enemy. Case in point, [[spoiler:Captain Hugh O'Donnell, whose plane was attacked by JAM during a test flight, which led to Yukikaze taking it over by remote control and having it pull extreme high-G maneuvers to fight the JAM. Those maneuvers killed the poor captain]]. These occasions, though, are presented as more of IDidWhatIHadToDo situations.
60* ''Anime/TomicaHyperRescueDriveHeadKidouKyuukyuuKeisatsu'' has the appropriately named Evil A.I. as its BigBad. It is a pure evil presence [[spoiler:made from negative human emotions, self-evolving all the time, and hell-bent on [[KillAllHumans wiping out humanity]]]]. There is also Idaten, who isn't nearly as malicious, but he's fond of Maiko and happy to help her commit crimes.
61* The SD system in ''Manga/TowardTheTerra'' is an arguable example. It doubles as an AncientConspiracy, but its persecution of the Mu and the other ways it screws with people were all programmed into it by the humans who built it, and it continues to do exactly what it was programmed to do throughout the series, up to and including explaining the full extent of the situation to Keith and putting the ultimate decision regarding the Mu into Keith's hands. Grand Mother's escalation to Phase 4, [[spoiler:which involves implementing a plan to eradicate the Mu permanently and also results in Grand Mother turning on Keith when he protests]], may be this trope in action, but is equally likely to have resulted from Keith's conflicted feelings on the matter causing Grand Mother to reach a faulty conclusion about his decision.
62* The last chapter of the {{Hentai}} manga ''Virginal Communication'' is about a couple who unexpectedly stop the A.I. they built from becoming fully sentient and destroying the world [[DeusSexMachina by having sex on it]].

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