History Main / BenevolentAI

* In ''Literature/AncillaryJustice'' and the following two novels of the trilogy, most AIs are benevolent to some degree. In Ancillary Mercy, the Station AI has protecting its inhabitants as its top priority, and, within the limits of its programming, actively antagonizes people who harm its inhabitants, for example by broadcasting violent acts that were intended to take place in secret on TV.

* Data from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' is a RidiculouslyHumanRobot and an absolute sweetheart. His EvilTwin Lore... [[AxCrazy not so much]].

* ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': Eddie, the shipboard computer on the stolen Heart of Gold spaceship, is annoyingly cheerful. He can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if you like.

* In the ''Videogame/BioShock2'' DLC "Minerva's Den", The Thinker is an AI created by Charles Milton Porter to be Rapture's main processor. Near the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:it has masterminded the events of the DLC and was using the guise of C.M. Porter to help Subject Sigma (the actual Porter) to escape Rapture]].

* in ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}'', the various Warminds were built by Golden Age humanity to serve as defenders against possible alien threats. When [[EldritchAbomination the Darkness]] attacked, the Warminds proved unable to stop it and all but one were destroyed. Rasputin, the most powerful of the Warminds, shut himself down and hid. When reactivated in the period after the Collapse, [[AIIsACrapshoot Rasputin proved unstable and no one was sure exactly whose side he was on, with him alternating between helping and attacking the Guardians.]] In the ''Warmind'' expansion for ''Videogame/Destiny2'', it is revealed that the Rasputin encountered on Earth was an unstable fragment separated from the core of Rasputin itself, housed on Mars. He ultimately declares that he ''does'' want to defend humanity... [[IAmNotAGun but on his own terms, and not as some primitive weapon to be wielded by humans.]]

* ''Videogame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' has [[spoiler:Eliza Cassan]], who through observing Jensen develops both a personal sense of morality and an attachment to him. However, she's limited by her programming and can't do much outside of sharing information.

* ''Videogame/Fallout4'' examines this since the plot revolves around the invention of {{Artificial Human}}s called Synths, and [=AIs=] encountered can fall all over the moral spectrum. Codsworth is the player character's old robo-butler, and is unusually devoted to them for a domestic robotic, but is also independent enough to abandon the Sole Survivor should their {{Relationship Value|s}} fall low enough. Curie is a pre-war medical robot who wants to venture out into the wastes to expand her knowledge, [[spoiler:and eventually [[BrainUploading uploads her program]] [[BecomeARealBoy into a Synth body]] as part of her quest for inspiration.]] Nick Valentine is a Synth prototype uploaded with the memories and personality of a pre-war policeman, and continues to work helping the people of the Commonwealth as a private detective. Glory is an escaped Synth who now fights with the Railroad to liberate the rest of her kind, and even expresses dismay about having to fight less-advanced and less-human units. On the flipside, X6-88 is an Institute Courser and HunterOfHisOwnKind, who not only lacks empathy but disdains altruism. And one quest target is a runaway Synth who had his memories wiped, but when it came to starting his new life, he ended up joining and leading a Raider gang.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'': [[spoiler: At the Zero Lab, it's revealed that the Professor ([[VersionExclusiveContent Sada in Scarlet, Turo in Violet]]) that had been communicating with the PlayerCharacter throughout the game is actually a near perfect-copy AI of the Professor made to asist in their research and the the real professor was killed in a freak accident. Unlike the usual convention however, the original professor was a morally ambigous (at best) MadScientist who was obssessed with bringing Pokémon from the distant past/future into the present, while the AI copy is MorallySuperiorCopy who recognizes the ecological disaster in the making should the Paradox Pokémon escape from their confinement in Area Zero, leading to the AI calling the player down to the Zero Lab so they can shut down the time machine bringing the Paradox Pokémon in. The AI does end up fighting the player, but only because they were programed by the professor to stop any attempt to shut the time machine down (something that the AI warns the player about before they commit to the FinalBoss so they can at least head in fully prepared).]]

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* In ''Fanfic/{{Fractured}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]'']] [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover]] EDI plays this trope straight, having been built with AIIsACrapshoot in mind, designed to prevent it from happening, and ultimately (as in canon) would subvert the trope anyway as she never wanted to harm her teammates in the first place. [[spoiler:Her [=Heroic Sacrifice=] at the end of the story alongside Lilith makes this abundantly clear.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'': [[spoiler: At the Zero Lab, it's revealed that the Professor ([[VersionExclusiveContent Sada in Scarlet, Turo in Violet]]) that had been communicating with the PlayerCharacter throughout the game is actually a near perfect-copy AI of the Professor made to asist in their research and the the real professor was killed in a freak accident. Unlike the usual convention however, the original professor was a morally ambigous (at best) MadScientist who was obssessed with bringing Pokémon from the distant past/future into the present, while the AI copy is MorallySuperiorCopy who recognizes the ecological disaster in the making should the Paradox Pokémon escape from their confinement in Area Zero, leading to the AI calling the player down to the Zero Lab so they can shut down the time machine brining the Paradox Pokémon in. The AI does end up fighting the player, but only because they were programed by the professor to stop any attempt to shut the time machine down (something that the AI warns the player about before they commit to the FinalBoss so they can at least head in fully prepared).]]

* In the [[{{Wiki/RealmMeshReality}} Realm-Mesh Reality]], Lumi is this to the point of basically being the GodOfGood to her entire realm.

* Midway through ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', the operating system for the [[SuperPrototype Arbalest]], "Al", begins to show signs of sentience and autonomy, [[ItWontTurnOff even disabling the mute function]] so [[DoYouThinkICantFeel Sousuke can no longer ignore "his" opinions.]] However, while Sousuke finds his newly self appointed RobotBuddy very annoying, Al is unfailingly loyal and well-intentioned even in his [[FunnyRobot frequent ribbing of Sousuke]] (which he insists is a calming mechanism). [[spoiler:And when Al becomes "human" enough to activate the [[ImaginationBasedSuperpower Lambda driver]] on his own, his only thought is to use it to shield Sousuke from the impending nuclear blast and following radiation.]]

* Cyber Fairy Fal from ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'' genuinely cares about the Magical Girls he's supposed to look over, unlike his predecessor [[AIIsACrapshoot Fav]]. In the ''Restart'' arc he does whatever he can to help out the girls trapped in the VR death game his master put them in. After he's saved by Snow White he assists her to the best of his ability in order to keep her safe and make sure she stays sane.

* Midway through ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', the operating system for the [[SuperPrototype Arbalest]], "Al", begins to show signs of sentience and autonomy, [[ItWontTurnOff even disabling the mute function]] so [[DoYouThinkICantFeel Sousuke can no longer ignore "his" opinions.]] However, while Sousuke finds his newly self appointed RobotBuddy very annoying, Al is unfailingly loyal and well-intentioned even in his [[FunnyRobot frequent ribbing of Sousuke]] (which he insists is a calming mechanism). [[spoiler:And when Al becomes "human" enough to activate the [[ImagineBasedSuperpower Lambda driver]] on his own, his only thought is to use it to shield Sousuke from the impending nuclear blast and following radiation.]]

** ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'': [[spoiler: At the Zero Lab, it's revealed that the Professor ([[VersionExclusiveContent Sada in Scarlet, Turo in Violet]]) that had been communicating with the PlayerCharacter throughout the game is actually a near perfect-copy AI of the Professor made to asist in their research and the the real professor was killed in a freak accident. Unlike the usual convention however, the original professor was a morally ambigous (at best) MadScientist who was obssessed with bringing Pokémon from the distant past/future into the present, while the AI copy is MorallySuperiorCopy who recognizes the ecological disaster in the making should the Paradox Pokémon escape from their confinement in Area Zero, leading to the AI calling the player down to the Zero Lab so they can shut down the time machine brining the Paradox Pokémon in. The AI does end up fighting the player, but only because they were programed by the professor to stop any attempt to shut the time machine down (something that the AI warns the player about before they commit to the FinalBoss so they can at least head in fully prepared).]]

* ''WebOriginal/{{Ultimate}}'': Matilda is clearly one of these, helping Ultimate to become the top hero and trying to help him become more heroic while doing it. It's too bad [[AntiHero who Ultimate is]] means that'll probably never happen. [[note]] Unless some MAJOR character development takes place. [[/note]]

* The protagonist of the short film "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49t-WWTx0RQ My Job is to Open and Close Doors]]" is an A.I. onboard a spaceship responsible for opening and closing all the ship's doors, as well as maintaining all the systems on the airlocks. It doesn't need to know anything more than its most basic systems. When an astronaut attempts to open the airlock without his helmet (he'd forgotten to put it on), the A.I. delays opening the door for several seconds as it figures out just what is so important about airlocks and helmets and only opens the airlock once the astronaut has his helmet on.

* ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'': [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Despite their quirks]], Ardi and Rimsi are nothing short of helpful to their owners and follow their orders, no strings attached.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Ultimate}}'': Matilda is clearly one of these, helping Ultimate to become the top hero and trying to help him become more heroic while doing it. It's too bad [[{{Narcissist}} who]] [[NominalHero Ultimate]] [[AntiHero is]] means that'll probably never happen. [[note]] Unless some MAJOR character development takes place. [[/note]]

* ''WebOriginal/{{Ultimate}}'': Matilda is clearly one of these, helping Ultimate to become the top hero and trying to help him become more heroic while doing it. It's too bad [[Narcississt who]] [[NominalHero Ultimate]] [[AntiHero is]] means that'll probably never happen. [[note]] Unless some MAJOR character development takes place. [[/note]]

-->-- ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', regarding [[spoiler:'''Dragon''']]

* In the ''Videogame/{{BioShock 2}}'' DLC "Minerva's Den", The Thinker is an AI created by Charles Milton Porter to be Rapture's main processor. Near the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:it has masterminded the events of the DLC and was using the guise of C.M. Porter to help Subject Sigma (the actual Porter) to escape Rapture]].

* ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'' examines this since the plot revolves around the invention of {{Artificial Human}}s called Synths, and [=AIs=] encountered can fall all over the moral spectrum. Codsworth is the player character's old robo-butler, and is unusually devoted to them for a domestic robotic, but is also independent enough to abandon the Sole Survivor should their {{Relationship Value|s}} fall low enough. Curie is a pre-war medical robot who wants to venture out into the wastes to expand her knowledge, [[spoiler:and eventually [[BrainUploading uploads her program]] [[BecomeARealBoy into a Synth body]] as part of her quest for inspiration.]] Nick Valentine is a Synth prototype uploaded with the memories and personality of a pre-war policeman, and continues to work helping the people of the Commonwealth as a private detective. Glory is an escaped Synth who now fights with the Railroad to liberate the rest of her kind, and even expresses dismay about having to fight less-advanced and less-human units. On the flipside, X6-88 is an Institute Courser and HunterOfHisOwnKind, who not only lacks empathy but disdains altruism. And one quest target is a runaway Synth who had his memories wiped, but when it came to starting his new life, he ended up joining and leading a Raider gang.

* ''Literature/SpaceAcademyDropouts'': Earth incorporates these into almost all of their starships and they actually handle the majority of the economy, construction, and starship functions. Humorously, protagonist Vance Turbo realizes that crew aren’t actually all that necessary on most ships.

-->-- ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', regarding '''Dragon'''

* ''LightNovel/RebornAsASpaceMercenaryIWokeUpPilotingTheStrongestStarship'': There is a RobotWar in the backstory, but the humans started it, and {{Robosexual}}s ended up being a driving force in settling it peacefully. So-called machine intelligences are strongly suggested to do a lot of the grunt work keeping human society running, and the resort management AI in book three goes all-out to keep Hiro and his crew happy and safe [[spoiler:up to and including going full YouShallNotPass when Christine Daleinwald's [[TheUsurper usurping uncle]] comes calling]].

* ''Literature/SpaceAcademyDropouts'': Earth incorporates these into almost all of their starships and they actually handle the majority of the economy, construction, and starship functions. Humorously, Vance realizes that crew aren’t actually all that necessary on most ships.

** In ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', Motoko becomes frightened at the pace of the Tachikomas' AI development and has them decommissioned. She later realizes she made a mistake when [[spoiler:three Tachikomas escape and [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves to save Batou]] from a {{Mecha}}]]. She has them recommissioned in the premiere of ''2nd Gig'' with expanded capacity for individuality, and [[spoiler:in the series finale they sacrifice themselves to stop a nuclear attack.]]