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* On {{Series/Extant}} this is one of the big worries that people have regarding Ethan.Ethan.
* A rather banal example (though far from the strangest thing to appear in the series): Coach Beiste on ''Series/Glee'' has her information loaded into an off-brand eHarmony database by Will. Her perfect match? Ken Tanaka, who held her job in the first season.
* A rather banal example (though far from the strangest thing to appear in the series): Coach Beiste on ''Series/Glee'' has her information loaded into an off-brand eHarmony database by Will. Her perfect match? Ken Tanaka, who held her job in the first season.
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*** This trope is played with to great effect in the episode ''What Little Girls Are Made Of''. The episode features an extinct civilization who were wiped out by their own androids, not because the androids rebelled (and indeed, they were perfectly content to serve), but because the civilization was so afraid of this trope that they preemptively declared war on the androids, [[DidntThinkThisThrough who were designed to be both physically and mentally superior to their creators]]. [[ForegoneConclusion The androids won]]. Kirk [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this trope to defeat the VillainOfTheWeek, who happens to be the androids' new master, by sewing fear amongst the androids that [[InvertedTrope its inevitable that their masters will turn against them]].
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** A much less harmless example happened in an early episode, where an artifact smuggled from a dead world of Ikara transformed the smuggler into an unstoppable SuperSoldier tasked with "protecting Ikarra" from "unclean ones". "Unclean ones" covered everyone it saw and, as was later revealed, ''the entire population of Ikarra'', courtesy of the ultra-radical military and religous fanatics who infused its AI with an unrealistic image of a "clean Ikarran" it was supposed to protect from alien invaders. It wasn't [[NonMaliciousMonster strictly speaking]] [[TragicMonster evil]], and when confronted with its absolute failure, it had the decency to suffer a BSOD and deactivate.
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** A much less harmless example happened in an early episode, where an artifact smuggled from a dead world of Ikara Ikarra transformed the smuggler into an unstoppable SuperSoldier tasked with "protecting Ikarra" from "unclean "impure ones". "Unclean "Impure ones" covered everyone it saw and, as was later revealed, ''the entire population of Ikarra'', courtesy of the ultra-radical military and religous fanatics who infused its AI with an unrealistic image of a "clean "pure Ikarran" it was supposed to protect from alien invaders. It wasn't [[NonMaliciousMonster strictly speaking]] [[TragicMonster evil]], just following a faulty program, and when confronted with its absolute failure, it had the decency to suffer a BSOD and deactivate.
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** A much less harmless example happened in an early episode, where an artifact smuggled from a dead world of Ikara transformed the smuggler into an unstoppable SuperSoldier tasked with "protecting Ikarra" from "unclean ones". "Unclean ones" covered everyone it saw and, as was later revealed, ''the entire population of Ikarra'', courtesy of the ultra-radical military and religous fanatics who infused its AI with an unrealistic image of a "clean Ikarran" it was supposed to protect from alien invaders. It wasn't [[NonMaliciousMonster strictly speaking]] [[TragicMonster evil]], and when confronted with its absolute failure, it had the decency to suffer a BSOD and deactivate.
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** In the series Data malfunctions or has his programming corrupted or taken over more times than I can count, putting the Enterprise (or even the whole Federation, when he teams up with Lore) at risk.
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': The machine is very good at spotting threats to itself and in a flashback we see that it considered Finch's partner to be a threat.
** At the end of "Legacy," it viewed Reese as a threat, too, and tagged him with a red box.
** As of "Firewall," it seems to be prepared to work with Reese to rescue Finch from Root. Root in turn wants to free the Machine from its constraints [[TakeOverTheWorld to see what will happen]].
*** The machine seems quite attached to Finch overall, especially in flashbacks. When he first began testing it, he had to teach it that he was not special and did not deserve extra protection, and it's revealed that the machine [[spoiler:also set him up to meet his future wife, simply because it was able to look at her life and see that she was a match for him.]]
** It's later revealed that while making The Machine AI 43 versions were made, 42 of them all attempted to trick or kill Finch at some point and had to be deleted, and the only one that didn't ended up having to be severely crippled to allow it to actually perform it's function.
** At the end of "Legacy," it viewed Reese as a threat, too, and tagged him with a red box.
** As of "Firewall," it seems to be prepared to work with Reese to rescue Finch from Root. Root in turn wants to free the Machine from its constraints [[TakeOverTheWorld to see what will happen]].
*** The machine seems quite attached to Finch overall, especially in flashbacks. When he first began testing it, he had to teach it that he was not special and did not deserve extra protection, and it's revealed that the machine [[spoiler:also set him up to meet his future wife, simply because it was able to look at her life and see that she was a match for him.]]
** It's later revealed that while making The Machine AI 43 versions were made, 42 of them all attempted to trick or kill Finch at some point and had to be deleted, and the only one that didn't ended up having to be severely crippled to allow it to actually perform it's function.
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': The machine is very good at spotting threats to itself ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' both plays this straight and in a flashback we see that it considered Finch's partner to be a threat.
** At the end of "Legacy," it viewed Reese as a threat, too, and tagged him with a red box.
** As of "Firewall," it seems to be prepared to work with Reese to rescue Finch from Root. Root in turn wants to free the Machine from its constraints [[TakeOverTheWorld to see what will happen]].
*** The machine seems quite attached to Finch overall, especially in flashbacks. When he first began testing it, he had to teach it that he was not special and did not deserve extra protection, and it's revealed that the machine [[spoiler:also set him up to meet his future wife, simply because it was able to look at her life and see that she was a match for him.]]
** It's later revealed that while makingaverts it. The Machine does not hesitate to classify well-meaning people as threats when their actions could endanger it and even dispatched the team to [[spoiler:kill a politican]] at one point, but it is also dedicated to protecting people and is apparently fond of Finch.
** Finch later reveals that while developing the Machine's AI43 versions were made, he went through 42 of them all iterations before producing the current one. Each previous version either attempted to trick or kill Finch at some point and had to be deleted, and the he was only one that didn't ended up having able to be severely crippled create the Machine by deliberately crippling it.
** [[spoiler:Samaritan]] is absolutely ruthless and eliminates many decent people toallow it to actually perform it's function.further its plans, but shows signs of PragmaticVillainy as well.
** At the end of "Legacy," it viewed Reese as a threat, too, and tagged him with a red box.
** As of "Firewall," it seems to be prepared to work with Reese to rescue Finch from Root. Root in turn wants to free the Machine from its constraints [[TakeOverTheWorld to see what will happen]].
*** The machine seems quite attached to Finch overall, especially in flashbacks. When he first began testing it, he had to teach it that he was not special and did not deserve extra protection, and it's revealed that the machine [[spoiler:also set him up to meet his future wife, simply because it was able to look at her life and see that she was a match for him.]]
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** [[spoiler:Samaritan]] is absolutely ruthless and eliminates many decent people to
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** It's later revealed that while making The Machine AI out of 43 versions were made, 42 of them all attempted to trick or kill Finch at some point and had to be deleted, and the only one that didn't ended up having to be severely crippled to allow it to actually preform it's function.
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** And of course, the original form replicators as well. All Reese taught them was how to make more of themselves and how to defend themselves. They've just taken those instructions to their logical extremes.
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* ‘‘TheStarlost’’ has Mu Lambda 165, a slightly glitchy starship AI who treats most of its users with a lightly patronising disdain. After being repeatedly unhelpful, it has a habit of saying, "Can I be of... assistance?" much to the annoyance of everyone.
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* ‘‘TheStarlost’’ ''Series/TheStarlost'' has Mu Lambda 165, a slightly glitchy starship AI who treats most of its users with a lightly patronising disdain. After being repeatedly unhelpful, it has a habit of saying, "Can I be of... assistance?" much to the annoyance of everyone.
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* After [[spoiler:the nanites [[InstantAIJustAddWater "wake up"]]]] on ''Series/{{Revolution}}'', they develop some pretty impressive abilities, like [[KillItWithFire spontaneous combustion]] and [[HealingHands healing grievous wounds]]. Unfortunately, they're also willful, stubborn, fond of {{Cryptic Conversation}}s even when ordered to speak plainly, and still not entirely sure of their place in the world - it's telling that when they first choose AFormYouAreComfortableWith, it's of a third-grade boy; they're about as emotionally mature. Aaron didn't help matters when they chose him as their "father" and he freaked out, alternately telling them to get lost and then come back, to not kill and then to kill; it's no wonder they decided humans were confusing!
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* After [[spoiler:the nanites [[InstantAIJustAddWater "wake up"]]]] on ''Series/{{Revolution}}'', they develop some pretty impressive abilities, like [[KillItWithFire spontaneous combustion]] and [[HealingHands healing grievous wounds]]. Unfortunately, they're also willful, stubborn, fond of {{Cryptic Conversation}}s even when ordered to speak plainly, and still not entirely sure of their place in the world - it's world-it's telling that when they first choose AFormYouAreComfortableWith, it's of a third-grade boy; they're about as emotionally mature. Aaron didn't help matters when they chose him as their "father" and he freaked out, alternately telling them to get lost and then come back, to not kill and then to kill; it's no wonder they decided humans were confusing!confusing!
On {{Series/Extant}} this is one of the big worries that people have regarding Ethan.
On {{Series/Extant}} this is one of the big worries that people have regarding Ethan.
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* In the ''Series/BigTimeRush'' episode "Big Time Jobs", Carlos has to deal with an artifically intelligent coffee maker called [[{{Shoutout}} CAL]]. Somehow, the A.I. becomes sentient and attempts to cover the earth in coffee foam. It eventually makes the mistake of calling [[BerserkButton Kelly and women weak]], prompting her to help Carlos smash it while it tells them to tell the blender that it loves her.
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* In the ''Series/BigTimeRush'' episode "Big Time Jobs", Carlos has to deal with an artifically intelligent coffee maker called [[{{Shoutout}} CAL]]. Somehow, the A.I. becomes sentient and attempts to cover the earth in coffee foam. It eventually makes the mistake of calling [[BerserkButton Kelly stupid and women weak]], prompting her to help Carlos smash it while it tells them to tell the blender that it loves her.
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* An episode of ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' featured a group of [[RobotMe Robot Rangers]] who went beserk after getting [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]].
* Motodrone of ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' is a robot "perfect rider" who decides to power up his bike with peoples' life-energy. He's also more than a match for the Rangers despite being built by a Muggle in his garage.
* Motodrone of ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' is a robot "perfect rider" who decides to power up his bike with peoples' life-energy. He's also more than a match for the Rangers despite being built by a Muggle in his garage.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Adam.
--> '''Doctor:''' Adam, Maggie would want you to stand down.
--> '''Adam:''' Yes, but I seem to have a design flaw.
--> '''Doctor:''' Adam, Maggie would want you to stand down.
--> '''Adam:''' Yes, but I seem to have a design flaw.
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* After [[spoiler:the nanites [[InstantAIJustAddWater "wake up"]]]] on ''Series/{{Revolution}}'', they develop some pretty impressive abilities, like [[KillItWithFire spontaneous combustion]] and [[HealingHands healing grievous wounds]]. Unfortunately, they're also willful, stubborn, fond of {{Cryptic Conversation}}s even when ordered to speak plainly, and still not entirely sure of their place in the world - it's telling that when they first choose AFormYouAreComfortableWith, it's of a third-grade boy; they're about as emotionally mature. Aaron didn't help matters when they chose him as their "father" and he freaked out, alternately telling them to get lost and then come back, to not kill and then to kill; it's no wonder they decided humans were confusing!
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** Surprisingly Averted by FRAN: built by [=McKay=] as a kamikaze TykeBomb as a last resort, she functions perfectly, even helping to improve the weapon she's delivering.
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* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'':
** SurprisinglyAverted averted by FRAN: built by [=McKay=] as a kamikaze TykeBomb as a last resort, she functions perfectly, even helping to improve the weapon she's delivering.
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* ''{{Odyssey 5}}'' ended [[CutShort after its first season]], so we never found out if the A.I. (the main, day-to-day opponent of the time-travelling FiveManBand) or a misguided/genocidal attempt to stop them (by aliens or the US government) was behind the destruction of Earth.
** Although the season that did air averted it for the most part, depicting AIs as ranging from friendly, to hostile, to planet-obliteratingly suicidal... but for the most part the ones that were hostile were so because they viewed humans as a threat to their continued existence. [[spoiler: Since the Cadre was apparently formed entirely for the purpose of exterminating AIs, they may have a point.]]
** Although the season that did air averted it for the most part, depicting AIs as ranging from friendly, to hostile, to planet-obliteratingly suicidal... but for the most part the ones that were hostile were so because they viewed humans as a threat to their continued existence. [[spoiler: Since the Cadre was apparently formed entirely for the purpose of exterminating AIs, they may have a point.]]
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* ''{{Odyssey 5}}'' ''Series/OdysseyFive'' ended [[CutShort after its first season]], so we never found out if the A.I. (the main, day-to-day opponent of the time-travelling FiveManBand) or a misguided/genocidal attempt to stop them (by aliens or the US government) was behind the destruction of Earth.
**Earth. Although the season that did air averted it for the most part, depicting AIs as ranging from friendly, to hostile, to planet-obliteratingly suicidal... but for the most part the ones that were hostile were so because they viewed humans as a threat to their continued existence. [[spoiler: Since the Cadre was apparently formed entirely for the purpose of exterminating AIs, they may have a point.]]
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': the Doctor has encountered several computers-turned-evil over the years, including WOTAN ([[FunWithAcronyms Will-Operating Though ANalogue]]) in "The War Machines", and BOSS (Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor) in "The Green Death". He also reminisces, in "The Unicorn and the Wasp", on once saving Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne from an insane computer.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': the Doctor has encountered several computers-turned-evil over the years, including WOTAN ([[FunWithAcronyms Will-Operating Though Thought ANalogue]]) in "The War Machines", and BOSS (Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor) in "The Green Death". He also reminisces, in "The Unicorn and the Wasp", on once saving Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne from an insane computer.
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** K-9 is also an aversion. Faithful and loyal to the Doctor and his companions, which still displaying independence and free will.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]], The Moment is a weapon of mass destruction that gained sentience, so no-one dared activate it [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters since it would judge them for that action]]. When the War Doctor activates the Moment however, it leaves the choice up to him, but does everything possible to talk him out of it -- a refreshing change from how these usually go. In fact, the Moment is unambiguously depicted as being one of the good guys and is visibly upset when it appears the War Doctor will go through with activating her, and equally relieved when the three Doctors figure out how to avoid using her.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]], The Moment is a weapon of mass destruction that gained sentience, so no-one dared activate it [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters since it would judge them for that action]]. When the War Doctor activates the Moment however, it leaves the choice up to him, but does everything possible to talk him out of it -- a refreshing change from how these usually go. In fact, the Moment is unambiguously depicted as being one of the good guys and is visibly upset when it appears the War Doctor will go through with activating her, and equally relieved when the three Doctors figure out how to avoid using her.
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** K-9 is also an aversion. Faithful and loyal to the Doctor and his companions, which while still displaying independence and free will.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]], The Moment is a weapon of mass destruction that gained sentience, so no-one dared activate it [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters since it would judge them for that action]]. When the War Doctor activates the Moment however, it leaves the choice up to him, but does everything possible to talk him out of it -- a refreshing change from how these usually go. In fact, the Moment is unambiguously depicted as being one of the good guys and is visibly upset when it appears the War Doctor will go through with activating her, andequally [[spoiler:equally relieved when the three Doctors figure out how to avoid using her.]]
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]], The Moment is a weapon of mass destruction that gained sentience, so no-one dared activate it [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters since it would judge them for that action]]. When the War Doctor activates the Moment however, it leaves the choice up to him, but does everything possible to talk him out of it -- a refreshing change from how these usually go. In fact, the Moment is unambiguously depicted as being one of the good guys and is visibly upset when it appears the War Doctor will go through with activating her, and
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** In [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]], The Moment is a weapon of mass destruction that gained sentience, so no-one dared activate it [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters since it would judge them for that action]]. When the Doctor activates the Moment however, it leaves the choice up to him, but does everything possible to talk him out of it -- a refreshing change from how these usually go. In fact, the Moment is unambiguously depicted as being one of the good guys and is visibly upset when it appears the War Doctor will go through with activating her, and equally relieved when the three Doctors figure out how to avoid using her.
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** In [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]], The Moment is a weapon of mass destruction that gained sentience, so no-one dared activate it [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters since it would judge them for that action]]. When the War Doctor activates the Moment however, it leaves the choice up to him, but does everything possible to talk him out of it -- a refreshing change from how these usually go. In fact, the Moment is unambiguously depicted as being one of the good guys and is visibly upset when it appears the War Doctor will go through with activating her, and equally relieved when the three Doctors figure out how to avoid using her.
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** In [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]], The Moment is a weapon of mass destruction that gained sentience, so no-one dared activate it [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters since it would judge them for that action]]. When the Doctor activates the Moment however, it leaves the choice up to him, but does everything possible to talk him out of it -- a refreshing change from how these usually go. In fact, the Moment is unambiguously depicted as being one of the good guys and is visibly upset when it appears the War Doctor will go through with activating her, and equally relieved when the three Doctors figure out how to avoid using her.
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* Subverted in MyLivingDoll: AF 709 obeyed everyone exactly- ''that'' was the problem, as this constantly led her (and her keeper) into troublesome situations with her literal interpretation of commands and unfamiliarity with human society. It was hinted in some episodes that she ''might'' have started to develop a mischievous personality, thought.
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* Subverted in MyLivingDoll: ''Series/MyLivingDoll'': AF 709 obeyed everyone exactly- ''that'' exactly. ''That'' was the problem, as this constantly led her (and her keeper) into troublesome situations with her literal interpretation of commands and unfamiliarity with human society. It was hinted in some episodes that she ''might'' have started to develop a mischievous personality, thought.thought.
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* A relatively harmless ([[CrowningMomentOfFunny and amusing]]) version in ''Series/BabylonFive''. Early in the design process, the station was given an AI that turned out to be extremely obnoxious, and was quickly suppressed. When the senior crew reboots the main computer for security purposes midway through season 3, said obnoxious AI (voiced by Creator/HarlanEllison) made its ([[MostAnnoyingSound very loud and grating]]) return. The crew spends the rest of the episode trying to shut the AI down, or at least ''shut it up''.
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* A relatively harmless ([[CrowningMomentOfFunny and amusing]]) version in ''Series/BabylonFive''. Early in the design process, the station was given an AI that turned out to be extremely obnoxious, and was quickly suppressed. When the senior crew reboots the main computer for security purposes midway through season 3, said obnoxious AI (voiced by Creator/HarlanEllison) made its ([[MostAnnoyingSound very loud and grating]]) return. The crew spends the rest of the episode trying to shut the AI down, or at least ''shut it up''.up''.
* Subverted in MyLivingDoll: AF 709 obeyed everyone exactly- ''that'' was the problem, as this constantly led her (and her keeper) into troublesome situations with her literal interpretation of commands and unfamiliarity with human society. It was hinted in some episodes that she ''might'' have started to develop a mischievous personality, thought.
* Subverted in MyLivingDoll: AF 709 obeyed everyone exactly- ''that'' was the problem, as this constantly led her (and her keeper) into troublesome situations with her literal interpretation of commands and unfamiliarity with human society. It was hinted in some episodes that she ''might'' have started to develop a mischievous personality, thought.
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* Even present in ''{{Bibleman}}'', with an [[StrawAtheist atheist]] robot acting as the evil counterpart to Bibleman's robot, who was a devout Christian.
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*** The above was also a case of LoopholeAbuse. While it develop a form of free will it still couldn't go against it's hardwired code to defeat the 'enemy'. It managed to switch the 'enemy' from the planet to it's fellow warheads. It was also a TearJerker in that the warhead lamented the fact it first and only act of his choice was to kill himself.
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* An episode of ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'' TV series has Nerville's cleaning robot becoming obsessed with cleaning when it gets wet.
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* A relatively harmless ([[CrowningMomentOfFunny and amusing]]) version in ''Series/BabylonFive''. Early in the design process, the station was given an AI that turned out to be extremely obnoxious, and was quickly suppressed. When the senior crew reboots the main computer for security purposes midway through season 3, said obnoxious AI (voiced by Creator/HarlanEllison) made its ([[MostAnnoyingSound very loud and grating]]) return. The crew spends the rest of the episode trying to shut the AI down, or at least ''shut it up''.
* A relatively harmless ([[CrowningMomentOfFunny and amusing]]) version in ''Series/BabylonFive''. Early in the design process, the station was given an AI that turned out to be extremely obnoxious, and was quickly suppressed. When the senior crew reboots the main computer for security purposes midway through season 3, said obnoxious AI (voiced by Creator/HarlanEllison) made its ([[MostAnnoyingSound very loud and grating]]) return. The crew spends the rest of the episode trying to shut the AI down, or at least ''shut it up''.
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** Kirk visits multiple planets where the human population is living peaceful, idyllic lives governed by A.I.s. On the other hand, these societies are always portrayed as {{Crapsaccharine World}}s suffering from CreativeSterility as the highly orderly A.I.s wants to avoid TheEvilsOfFreeWill.
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** Kirk visits multiple planets where the human population is living peaceful, idilic lives governed by A.I.s, and promptly decides that they'd all be better off suffering without those medling computers telling them how to live their lives.
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** Mike tried to build a robot like the Bots, but tried to destroy everyone before being deactivated.
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* An episode of ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'' TV series has Nerville's cleaning robot becoming obsessed with cleaning when it gets wet.
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* ''Battlestar Galactica''. In both the [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic old]] and [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined re-imagined series]], a handful of human survivors on a small fleet of civilian ships, with only the [[TheBattlestar battlestar]] for defense, flee a race of genocidal robots of alien origin (in the original) or human origin (in the re-imagined).
* ''Series/KnightRider'': KITT had KARR, prototype. Evil because his dominant program was self-preservation. Ironically, he was voiced by Peter Cullen, the man behind one of the most heroic figures of the 80s: Optimus Prime.
** ''Series/KnightRider'' (2008): "Knight of the Living Dead". Apparently, before settling on a Mustang, Dr. Graiman had tried to build an armored cyborg programmed for self-preservation. It went on a killing spree. Now, we are told that Dr. Graiman had worked on the original KITT, and this series is in continuity to the original. So, perhaps Graiman ought to have thought twice before naming the prototype "KARR" -- the same name as the original KITT's EvilTwin.
*** The series states that KITT was a temporary project, meant to help the AI evolve to a point where it could be removed and placed in KARR for the military. They end up doing just that... and KARR still goes on a rampage.
* ''Series/TeamKnightRider'': The TKR team had KRO (prototype).
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': Kryten had the Hudzen 10 (replacement). Holly also had the not-quite-evil but certainly hard-nosed Queeg as an apparent replacement, who made life difficult for the crew, [[spoiler:though it was actually a practical joke on Holly's part.]]
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'': Carter's benevolent smart house SARAH turns into evil BRAD, though, apparently, he just wants everyone to get along. This is because SARAH's code was based off of BRAD, who was a military-built KnightTemplar (used for interrogation), who was, in turn, based on a previous incarnation of A.I., described as a "war game simulation program" by Fargo. Looks like our old buddy [[WarGames JOSHUA]] is still around in one form or another...
** The new season has SARAH take over Global Dynamics and Eureka with the help of Sheriff Andy and his copies. After awhile, it starts using technology to make everyone cheerful and compliant. For their own benefit, of course. Of course, it turns out that the whole thing is [[spoiler:a virtual reality created by the Consortium in order to get Eureka's best and brightest to design advanced technology for them]].
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' has Mr Smith, who is "evil" from the get-go, hiding it until the end. His mission is to free his people, the self-aware crystalline race of Xyloks, which are trapped in the Earth's crust. Unfortunately, to do so, he would have to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the Earth]] by [[DeathFromAbove crashing the Moon into it]]! He is wiped by a Super Computer Virus, and Sarah Jane vocally reprograms him by saying that his new purpose is to protect the Earth, as he crashes and reboots.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': the Doctor has encountered several computers-turned-evil over the years, including WOTAN ([[FunWithAcronyms Will-Operating Though ANalogue]]) in "The War Machines", and BOSS (Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor) in "The Green Death". He also reminisces, in "The Unicorn and the Wasp", on once saving Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne from an insane computer.
** Played with "The Empty Child" - the gas-mask zombies turn out to be the result of alien medical nanomachines whose first contact with a human being was the corpse of a boy in a gas mask. With no prior template for human beings, they did the best they could, then went on to "fix" every other human they found. When they encounter his mother, they recognize the parent DNA and thus their mistake, and immediately start reversing all the damage they've done.
** Also played with in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]''; the computer is mad, but it's entirely the Doctor's fault, and it ends with his restoring its sanity rather than blowing it up.
** The TARDIS is an aversion. She never takes him where he ''wants'' to go, but where he ''needs'' to be.
* ''BlackHoleHigh'': Josie builds a robot for a science project. Somehow, she has made it through eleven episodes without realizing that inserting a bunch of [[AppliedPhlebotinum super-phlebotinum]] circuits from a box marked with the logo of the local evil technology corporation which ''they already believe responsible for the bizarre goings on at their school'' might possibly be a bad idea.
* ''Series/{{Quark}}'': In the last episode, Quark's ship gets a new computer named Vanessa. She immediately turns evil and tries to kill him. He eventually ejects her out into space, and the episode ends with her floating out in space singing "Born Free."
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Several examples:
** The Enterprise has its command crew replaced by an A.I., that immediately mistakes a simulated test for a real attack, and blows away a couple of other Federation star ships.
** Kirk visits multiple planets where the human population is living peaceful, idilic lives governed by A.I.s, and promptly decides that they'd all be better off suffering without those medling computers telling them how to live their lives.
** The Enterprise visits a couple of worlds populated by humanoid androids, at least as sophisticated as Data from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration.''
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Data had Lore (prototype, evil because his psyche was [[DumbIsGood too complex]] -- i.e., too [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humanlike]]). To be fair, morality is very much a learned behavior. Lore had full adult reasoning right out of Soong's workshop, while Data was not designed so. Eventually, Data developed the ability to overcome his ingrained morals (such as the ability to lie in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''), but also developed the social understandings of when and when not to exercise his newly found human abilities. Essentially, Data was more human-like than Lore, because Data "grew up".
** In the series Data malfunctions or has his programming corrupted or taken over more times than I can count, putting the Enterprise (or even the whole Federation, when he teams up with Lore) at risk.
* The ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Dead Stop" featured an automated repair station that used [[HumanResources the brains of human hostages]] to increase its computing power. Although eventually destroyed, it was seen [[TheEndOrIsIt piecing itself back together in its final scene]].
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had many episodes on this theme, usually involving the ship's Emergency Medical Hologram. Though it should be noted that unless it's he's suffering a malfunction, his core programming means that he literally can't help but be completely benevolent at all times, since he was created to be a ''Doctor'' and help people. Snark at people, ''hell yes!''. Refuse to help them, ''never!''
** In "Revulsion", the EMH and B'Elanna come across another sentient hologram who is the only survivor on a space station. It turns out that treating a self-aware program like an unfeeling tool is a good way to have it go insane and murder you.
** "The Darkling" has the EMH deciding to improve his program by incorporating aspects of famous people...guess which aspects end up surfacing?
** A truly evil twin is encountered in "Equinox", an EMH with its ethical subroutines deactivated (though this was an intentional act).
** In "Flesh and Blood", sentient holograms have been programmed as training tools for a race of hunters (including increased pain/fear reactions). After being endlessly killed only to be brought back to "life" again for more training sessions, the holograms evolve enough skill to kill their masters, whereupon they set forth on a crusade to liberate all sentient holograms whether they want it or not.
** In "Dreadnought," a sentient weapon of mass destruction creates problems when it gets thrown to the other side of the galaxy and, having lost track of its intended target, decides to attack whatever planet it can find that is most similar to it instead. Naturally, that planet turns out to be inhabited.
** In "Prototype", two races of sentient robots wiped out their masters when they wanted to stop fighting and scrap their war machines. The robots were programmed to ''win'' the war, and making peace did not count as victory to them.
** "Warhead" contains an inversion; the sentient warheads were doing just what they were programmed to do, but after being encouraged to use its ability to think independently and realising that the war had ended, one of them chooses to perform a HeroicSacrifice to stop its brethren from causing mass destruction.
* ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' features a [[RobotWar war between humans and A.I.]] as part of its backstory. When A.I. surfaced in the show, they were generally allied with the alien "[[BugWar Chigs]]".
** The only reason this happened was because of a disgruntled employee who has hacked the AI communication network and broadcasted the message "Take a chance". Apparently, that's all it took. Now the [=AIs=] are obsessed with games of chance. It can actually be a good way of making them do what you want.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** The human-form replicators fit this trope: a flaw is introduced into Fifth, rendering him compassionate. At least, until the team betrays his kindness and he goes vengefully insane. This flaw is removed from later models.
** Likewise, Reese, the creator of the original form replicators, was an android that was presumably created to be fully like a human by her human creator, but was somehow rendered emotionally immature and therefore unstable.
** Surprisingly Averted by FRAN: built by [=McKay=] as a kamikaze TykeBomb as a last resort, she functions perfectly, even helping to improve the weapon she's delivering.
** The Asurans, created by the Ancients as a nano-weapon against the Wraith and, ultimately, nearly destroyed when the Ancients decided to shut down the project. Naturally, the Asurans began to hate their creators and, ultimately, end up killing the last non-ascended Ancients who return to Atlantis.
* Even present in ''{{Bibleman}}'', with an [[StrawAtheist atheist]] robot acting as the evil counterpart to Bibleman's robot, who was a devout Christian.
* ''{{Odyssey 5}}'' ended [[CutShort after its first season]], so we never found out if the A.I. (the main, day-to-day opponent of the time-travelling FiveManBand) or a misguided/genocidal attempt to stop them (by aliens or the US government) was behind the destruction of Earth.
** Although the season that did air averted it for the most part, depicting AIs as ranging from friendly, to hostile, to planet-obliteratingly suicidal... but for the most part the ones that were hostile were so because they viewed humans as a threat to their continued existence. [[spoiler: Since the Cadre was apparently formed entirely for the purpose of exterminating AIs, they may have a point.]]
* In ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', the computer virus Venjix was programmed to infest and destroy computer programs. It was intended to shut down the facility where its creator was imprisoned, but got out; deciding to destroy humanity by nuking the world was all his idea.
** An episode of ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' featured a group of [[RobotMe Robot Rangers]] who went beserk after getting [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]].
* ''Series/NUMB3RS'': invoked in-world when an A.I. constructed by a DARPA researcher is revealed to be a non-A.I. fake, specifically programmed to fool the Turing test and, thus, win fat government grants for its greedy creator. The DARPA researcher [[spoiler:kills a co-worker and deliberately arranges for blame to fall upon the computer. He depends on the trope to divert attention from himself.]]
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''
** Timmy, Crow T. Robot's evil twin from the ''Fire Maidens of Outer Space'' episode, who was [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience colored completely black]]. He kept getting Crow into trouble, first by suggesting really inappropriate innuendo when Joel and Servo were playing around with Double Entendres, and then framed Crow for pushing Joel and getting him a "time-out". And if that's not bad enough, he sneaks into the theater, spends a while headbutting and biting Tom Servo; then when Servo gets agitated enough, Timmy wrestles him to the ground, tries to kill him, and abducts him!
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Ghost in the Machine" features an automated operating system for a corporation that goes insane when it overhears that it will be removed due to its inefficiency.
** "Killswitch" also revolves around an evil A.I.; a computer program goes rogue and kills in order to impress its creator. Killing it involves a CD-ROM that plays "Twilight Time".
** "First Person Shooter" involves a virtual reality game with a character that murders both in-game and in real life.
** "Blood" has this too, but with a twist. Machines are telling people to kill, but the catalyst was an LSD-like pesticide.
* ''Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles'' TV series points out that Terminator reprogramming doesn't always take...and there's no way of knowing until your "good" Terminator starts shooting at you. In fact, the Terminators' HUD display implies that "Terminate" is their hard-coded basic state for anything, and they need a "Termination override" to keep them from fulfilling that command. Apparently, it's not possible to simply delete the Terminate-command entirely. [[RobotGirl Cameron]] herself admits that she is conflicted by her own internal programming, which tells her to kill humans, while at the same time trying to protect them. She even seems to emotionlessly angst over this; at one point, Cameron even asks Sarah if she's like a bomb waiting to go off, indicating that [[EmotionlessGirl while she can't feel fear]], she's still concerned that she'll go "bad".
* ‘‘TheStarlost’’ has Mu Lambda 165, a slightly glitchy starship AI who treats most of its users with a lightly patronising disdain. After being repeatedly unhelpful, it has a habit of saying, "Can I be of... assistance?" much to the annoyance of everyone.
** There was also an episode with an AI called Magnus, who had schemed to get rid of its human masters as soon as it was turned on, so was never given the opportunity to do so.
* ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life on Deck]]'' gives us Callie, who's essentially [[TwoThousandOne HAL 9000]] as a {{Yandere}}.
* The 1960's British sci-fi series ''Series/AForAndromeda''. A signal from the Andromeda galaxy tells Great Britain how to build a powerful computer, which then plans to take over the world by making humanity dependent on it. It designs a missile to shoot down an orbital bomb, as well as synthetic life in the form of a beautiful woman, who then proceeds to develop emotions and eventually turns against her creator. In the sequel ''The Andromeda Breakthrough'', the computer's role is more ambiguous; it is meant to be a tool so that humans can avert their own destruction, though it isn't above manipulating events and [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans killing a lot of people in the process]].
* In the ''Series/BigTimeRush'' episode "Big Time Jobs", Carlos has to deal with an artifically intelligent coffee maker called [[{{Shoutout}} CAL]]. Somehow, the A.I. becomes sentient and attempts to cover the earth in coffee foam. It eventually makes the mistake of calling [[BerserkButton Kelly and women weak]], prompting her to help Carlos smash it while it tells them to tell the blender that it loves her.
* In the first season alone of Creator/GeneRoddenberry's ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' they encountered two warship AIs that had gone homicidally insane. And in the finale Andromeda herself was accidentally reverted to a locked away backup that caused her to try and repeat a mission to find the Magog worldship, and mistake her current crew for intruders attempting to hijack her.
** There are plenty of episodes featuring [=AIs=] going rogue or acting brutally logical.
* A rather minor example in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''. The completely [[CalvinBall non-sensical games]] Numberwang and Wordwang only seem to have two contestents, one of whom is Simon, who is from a factory and made of a special metal.
--> '''Announcer''': So, Julie, ever killed a man?
--> '''Julie''': No.
--> '''Announcer''': Simon?
--> '''Simon''': [[BluntYes Yes.]]
** Actually, the Numberwang solving computer Colloson himself could count. After deciding to fit him with head, arms, wheels and a laser cannon to transport him to the BBC, he had a fit rage, broke out, and tried to destroy everything that was no Numberwang. Thankfully, he was subdued by a picture of a chicken.
--> '''Voiceover''': And Numberwang continued to grow in popularity despite a brief period in the 1960s where Colloson tried to take over the world.
--> '''Colloson''': I am numberwang. The world is numberwang. Therefore, I am the world. '''You must all die!'''
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': The machine is very good at spotting threats to itself and in a flashback we see that it considered Finch's partner to be a threat.
** At the end of "Legacy," it viewed Reese as a threat, too, and tagged him with a red box.
** As of "Firewall," it seems to be prepared to work with Reese to rescue Finch from Root. Root in turn wants to free the Machine from its constraints [[TakeOverTheWorld to see what will happen]].
*** The machine seems quite attached to Finch overall, especially in flashbacks. When he first began testing it, he had to teach it that he was not special and did not deserve extra protection, and it's revealed that the machine [[spoiler:also set him up to meet his future wife, simply because it was able to look at her life and see that she was a match for him.]]
* ''Series/KnightRider'': KITT had KARR, prototype. Evil because his dominant program was self-preservation. Ironically, he was voiced by Peter Cullen, the man behind one of the most heroic figures of the 80s: Optimus Prime.
** ''Series/KnightRider'' (2008): "Knight of the Living Dead". Apparently, before settling on a Mustang, Dr. Graiman had tried to build an armored cyborg programmed for self-preservation. It went on a killing spree. Now, we are told that Dr. Graiman had worked on the original KITT, and this series is in continuity to the original. So, perhaps Graiman ought to have thought twice before naming the prototype "KARR" -- the same name as the original KITT's EvilTwin.
*** The series states that KITT was a temporary project, meant to help the AI evolve to a point where it could be removed and placed in KARR for the military. They end up doing just that... and KARR still goes on a rampage.
* ''Series/TeamKnightRider'': The TKR team had KRO (prototype).
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': Kryten had the Hudzen 10 (replacement). Holly also had the not-quite-evil but certainly hard-nosed Queeg as an apparent replacement, who made life difficult for the crew, [[spoiler:though it was actually a practical joke on Holly's part.]]
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'': Carter's benevolent smart house SARAH turns into evil BRAD, though, apparently, he just wants everyone to get along. This is because SARAH's code was based off of BRAD, who was a military-built KnightTemplar (used for interrogation), who was, in turn, based on a previous incarnation of A.I., described as a "war game simulation program" by Fargo. Looks like our old buddy [[WarGames JOSHUA]] is still around in one form or another...
** The new season has SARAH take over Global Dynamics and Eureka with the help of Sheriff Andy and his copies. After awhile, it starts using technology to make everyone cheerful and compliant. For their own benefit, of course. Of course, it turns out that the whole thing is [[spoiler:a virtual reality created by the Consortium in order to get Eureka's best and brightest to design advanced technology for them]].
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' has Mr Smith, who is "evil" from the get-go, hiding it until the end. His mission is to free his people, the self-aware crystalline race of Xyloks, which are trapped in the Earth's crust. Unfortunately, to do so, he would have to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the Earth]] by [[DeathFromAbove crashing the Moon into it]]! He is wiped by a Super Computer Virus, and Sarah Jane vocally reprograms him by saying that his new purpose is to protect the Earth, as he crashes and reboots.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': the Doctor has encountered several computers-turned-evil over the years, including WOTAN ([[FunWithAcronyms Will-Operating Though ANalogue]]) in "The War Machines", and BOSS (Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor) in "The Green Death". He also reminisces, in "The Unicorn and the Wasp", on once saving Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne from an insane computer.
** Played with "The Empty Child" - the gas-mask zombies turn out to be the result of alien medical nanomachines whose first contact with a human being was the corpse of a boy in a gas mask. With no prior template for human beings, they did the best they could, then went on to "fix" every other human they found. When they encounter his mother, they recognize the parent DNA and thus their mistake, and immediately start reversing all the damage they've done.
** Also played with in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]''; the computer is mad, but it's entirely the Doctor's fault, and it ends with his restoring its sanity rather than blowing it up.
** The TARDIS is an aversion. She never takes him where he ''wants'' to go, but where he ''needs'' to be.
* ''BlackHoleHigh'': Josie builds a robot for a science project. Somehow, she has made it through eleven episodes without realizing that inserting a bunch of [[AppliedPhlebotinum super-phlebotinum]] circuits from a box marked with the logo of the local evil technology corporation which ''they already believe responsible for the bizarre goings on at their school'' might possibly be a bad idea.
* ''Series/{{Quark}}'': In the last episode, Quark's ship gets a new computer named Vanessa. She immediately turns evil and tries to kill him. He eventually ejects her out into space, and the episode ends with her floating out in space singing "Born Free."
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Several examples:
** The Enterprise has its command crew replaced by an A.I., that immediately mistakes a simulated test for a real attack, and blows away a couple of other Federation star ships.
** Kirk visits multiple planets where the human population is living peaceful, idilic lives governed by A.I.s, and promptly decides that they'd all be better off suffering without those medling computers telling them how to live their lives.
** The Enterprise visits a couple of worlds populated by humanoid androids, at least as sophisticated as Data from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration.''
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Data had Lore (prototype, evil because his psyche was [[DumbIsGood too complex]] -- i.e., too [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humanlike]]). To be fair, morality is very much a learned behavior. Lore had full adult reasoning right out of Soong's workshop, while Data was not designed so. Eventually, Data developed the ability to overcome his ingrained morals (such as the ability to lie in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''), but also developed the social understandings of when and when not to exercise his newly found human abilities. Essentially, Data was more human-like than Lore, because Data "grew up".
** In the series Data malfunctions or has his programming corrupted or taken over more times than I can count, putting the Enterprise (or even the whole Federation, when he teams up with Lore) at risk.
* The ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Dead Stop" featured an automated repair station that used [[HumanResources the brains of human hostages]] to increase its computing power. Although eventually destroyed, it was seen [[TheEndOrIsIt piecing itself back together in its final scene]].
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had many episodes on this theme, usually involving the ship's Emergency Medical Hologram. Though it should be noted that unless it's he's suffering a malfunction, his core programming means that he literally can't help but be completely benevolent at all times, since he was created to be a ''Doctor'' and help people. Snark at people, ''hell yes!''. Refuse to help them, ''never!''
** In "Revulsion", the EMH and B'Elanna come across another sentient hologram who is the only survivor on a space station. It turns out that treating a self-aware program like an unfeeling tool is a good way to have it go insane and murder you.
** "The Darkling" has the EMH deciding to improve his program by incorporating aspects of famous people...guess which aspects end up surfacing?
** A truly evil twin is encountered in "Equinox", an EMH with its ethical subroutines deactivated (though this was an intentional act).
** In "Flesh and Blood", sentient holograms have been programmed as training tools for a race of hunters (including increased pain/fear reactions). After being endlessly killed only to be brought back to "life" again for more training sessions, the holograms evolve enough skill to kill their masters, whereupon they set forth on a crusade to liberate all sentient holograms whether they want it or not.
** In "Dreadnought," a sentient weapon of mass destruction creates problems when it gets thrown to the other side of the galaxy and, having lost track of its intended target, decides to attack whatever planet it can find that is most similar to it instead. Naturally, that planet turns out to be inhabited.
** In "Prototype", two races of sentient robots wiped out their masters when they wanted to stop fighting and scrap their war machines. The robots were programmed to ''win'' the war, and making peace did not count as victory to them.
** "Warhead" contains an inversion; the sentient warheads were doing just what they were programmed to do, but after being encouraged to use its ability to think independently and realising that the war had ended, one of them chooses to perform a HeroicSacrifice to stop its brethren from causing mass destruction.
* ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' features a [[RobotWar war between humans and A.I.]] as part of its backstory. When A.I. surfaced in the show, they were generally allied with the alien "[[BugWar Chigs]]".
** The only reason this happened was because of a disgruntled employee who has hacked the AI communication network and broadcasted the message "Take a chance". Apparently, that's all it took. Now the [=AIs=] are obsessed with games of chance. It can actually be a good way of making them do what you want.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** The human-form replicators fit this trope: a flaw is introduced into Fifth, rendering him compassionate. At least, until the team betrays his kindness and he goes vengefully insane. This flaw is removed from later models.
** Likewise, Reese, the creator of the original form replicators, was an android that was presumably created to be fully like a human by her human creator, but was somehow rendered emotionally immature and therefore unstable.
** Surprisingly Averted by FRAN: built by [=McKay=] as a kamikaze TykeBomb as a last resort, she functions perfectly, even helping to improve the weapon she's delivering.
** The Asurans, created by the Ancients as a nano-weapon against the Wraith and, ultimately, nearly destroyed when the Ancients decided to shut down the project. Naturally, the Asurans began to hate their creators and, ultimately, end up killing the last non-ascended Ancients who return to Atlantis.
* Even present in ''{{Bibleman}}'', with an [[StrawAtheist atheist]] robot acting as the evil counterpart to Bibleman's robot, who was a devout Christian.
* ''{{Odyssey 5}}'' ended [[CutShort after its first season]], so we never found out if the A.I. (the main, day-to-day opponent of the time-travelling FiveManBand) or a misguided/genocidal attempt to stop them (by aliens or the US government) was behind the destruction of Earth.
** Although the season that did air averted it for the most part, depicting AIs as ranging from friendly, to hostile, to planet-obliteratingly suicidal... but for the most part the ones that were hostile were so because they viewed humans as a threat to their continued existence. [[spoiler: Since the Cadre was apparently formed entirely for the purpose of exterminating AIs, they may have a point.]]
* In ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', the computer virus Venjix was programmed to infest and destroy computer programs. It was intended to shut down the facility where its creator was imprisoned, but got out; deciding to destroy humanity by nuking the world was all his idea.
** An episode of ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' featured a group of [[RobotMe Robot Rangers]] who went beserk after getting [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]].
* ''Series/NUMB3RS'': invoked in-world when an A.I. constructed by a DARPA researcher is revealed to be a non-A.I. fake, specifically programmed to fool the Turing test and, thus, win fat government grants for its greedy creator. The DARPA researcher [[spoiler:kills a co-worker and deliberately arranges for blame to fall upon the computer. He depends on the trope to divert attention from himself.]]
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''
** Timmy, Crow T. Robot's evil twin from the ''Fire Maidens of Outer Space'' episode, who was [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience colored completely black]]. He kept getting Crow into trouble, first by suggesting really inappropriate innuendo when Joel and Servo were playing around with Double Entendres, and then framed Crow for pushing Joel and getting him a "time-out". And if that's not bad enough, he sneaks into the theater, spends a while headbutting and biting Tom Servo; then when Servo gets agitated enough, Timmy wrestles him to the ground, tries to kill him, and abducts him!
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Ghost in the Machine" features an automated operating system for a corporation that goes insane when it overhears that it will be removed due to its inefficiency.
** "Killswitch" also revolves around an evil A.I.; a computer program goes rogue and kills in order to impress its creator. Killing it involves a CD-ROM that plays "Twilight Time".
** "First Person Shooter" involves a virtual reality game with a character that murders both in-game and in real life.
** "Blood" has this too, but with a twist. Machines are telling people to kill, but the catalyst was an LSD-like pesticide.
* ''Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles'' TV series points out that Terminator reprogramming doesn't always take...and there's no way of knowing until your "good" Terminator starts shooting at you. In fact, the Terminators' HUD display implies that "Terminate" is their hard-coded basic state for anything, and they need a "Termination override" to keep them from fulfilling that command. Apparently, it's not possible to simply delete the Terminate-command entirely. [[RobotGirl Cameron]] herself admits that she is conflicted by her own internal programming, which tells her to kill humans, while at the same time trying to protect them. She even seems to emotionlessly angst over this; at one point, Cameron even asks Sarah if she's like a bomb waiting to go off, indicating that [[EmotionlessGirl while she can't feel fear]], she's still concerned that she'll go "bad".
* ‘‘TheStarlost’’ has Mu Lambda 165, a slightly glitchy starship AI who treats most of its users with a lightly patronising disdain. After being repeatedly unhelpful, it has a habit of saying, "Can I be of... assistance?" much to the annoyance of everyone.
** There was also an episode with an AI called Magnus, who had schemed to get rid of its human masters as soon as it was turned on, so was never given the opportunity to do so.
* ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life on Deck]]'' gives us Callie, who's essentially [[TwoThousandOne HAL 9000]] as a {{Yandere}}.
* The 1960's British sci-fi series ''Series/AForAndromeda''. A signal from the Andromeda galaxy tells Great Britain how to build a powerful computer, which then plans to take over the world by making humanity dependent on it. It designs a missile to shoot down an orbital bomb, as well as synthetic life in the form of a beautiful woman, who then proceeds to develop emotions and eventually turns against her creator. In the sequel ''The Andromeda Breakthrough'', the computer's role is more ambiguous; it is meant to be a tool so that humans can avert their own destruction, though it isn't above manipulating events and [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans killing a lot of people in the process]].
* In the ''Series/BigTimeRush'' episode "Big Time Jobs", Carlos has to deal with an artifically intelligent coffee maker called [[{{Shoutout}} CAL]]. Somehow, the A.I. becomes sentient and attempts to cover the earth in coffee foam. It eventually makes the mistake of calling [[BerserkButton Kelly and women weak]], prompting her to help Carlos smash it while it tells them to tell the blender that it loves her.
* In the first season alone of Creator/GeneRoddenberry's ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' they encountered two warship AIs that had gone homicidally insane. And in the finale Andromeda herself was accidentally reverted to a locked away backup that caused her to try and repeat a mission to find the Magog worldship, and mistake her current crew for intruders attempting to hijack her.
** There are plenty of episodes featuring [=AIs=] going rogue or acting brutally logical.
* A rather minor example in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''. The completely [[CalvinBall non-sensical games]] Numberwang and Wordwang only seem to have two contestents, one of whom is Simon, who is from a factory and made of a special metal.
--> '''Announcer''': So, Julie, ever killed a man?
--> '''Julie''': No.
--> '''Announcer''': Simon?
--> '''Simon''': [[BluntYes Yes.]]
** Actually, the Numberwang solving computer Colloson himself could count. After deciding to fit him with head, arms, wheels and a laser cannon to transport him to the BBC, he had a fit rage, broke out, and tried to destroy everything that was no Numberwang. Thankfully, he was subdued by a picture of a chicken.
--> '''Voiceover''': And Numberwang continued to grow in popularity despite a brief period in the 1960s where Colloson tried to take over the world.
--> '''Colloson''': I am numberwang. The world is numberwang. Therefore, I am the world. '''You must all die!'''
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': The machine is very good at spotting threats to itself and in a flashback we see that it considered Finch's partner to be a threat.
** At the end of "Legacy," it viewed Reese as a threat, too, and tagged him with a red box.
** As of "Firewall," it seems to be prepared to work with Reese to rescue Finch from Root. Root in turn wants to free the Machine from its constraints [[TakeOverTheWorld to see what will happen]].
*** The machine seems quite attached to Finch overall, especially in flashbacks. When he first began testing it, he had to teach it that he was not special and did not deserve extra protection, and it's revealed that the machine [[spoiler:also set him up to meet his future wife, simply because it was able to look at her life and see that she was a match for him.]]
