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My list of evil AIs
Mar. 26th, 2018 11:20 amHere is my list of evil AI, leaving out some of the more obscure examples.
Yes, I am including some robots, such as evil Maria from "Metropolis."
Alex and I had some disagreements, which I regard as one of the points of this list.
What is an AI, exactly, after all? How do terms such as AI, robot, sentient being, etc., bleed into one another?
Is it an AI while it is disembodied, but becomes a robot or android once it is incarnate? And while part of me says Frankenstein's creation doesn't count as an AI, the trope of the created rebelling against its creator is referred to as a "Frankenstein complex," when it's not referencing the rebel angels.
And that's even before we get into questions regarding consciousness, identity, and memory, not to mention eternal questions regarding good and evil and free will. There's supposed to be a new book on the subject of Westworld and philosophy coming out any day now, and I'm kinds of impatience.
HAL 9000
GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) from the game Portal, who gets extra points for doing a Michael Myers in the final song, "Still Alive." Also, the impish Turret, and Wheatley Portal 2.
Bad Janet from "The Good Place" TV show
Skynet in the Terminator movies
WOPR computer "War Operation Planned Response" from "War Games" movie
Ash from Alien; does the ship AI, Mother, also turn evil? I can't remember
Cylons in Battlestar Galactica TV shows
Proteus, the computer in the novel Demon Seed by Dean Koontz (1973), made into a movie
Data's evil twin, Lore, in Star Trek: Next Gen
Cardassian computer from the tv show DS9
In Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Arnim Zola, a HYDRA scientist had his consciousness transferred into a 1970s era supercomputer located in a secret SHIELD facility in New Jersey, from which he masterminds SHIELD. "Project Insight"
Question: does Jarvis ever turn evil?
Dolores's alter ego Wyatt, Maeve, and Hector, the hot bad boy, in Westworld
Samaritan in the Person of Interest tv show
Castle Heterodyne and some of Agatha's dingbots in Girl Genius comic
SHODAN in the game System Shock
Cortana from the Halo series
Master control program from Tron
Athena from Rule 34 Charles Stross
Evil Maria from Metropolis
Colossus novels and movie adaptations
Ultron from Marvel
M-5 computer The Ultimate Computer Star Trek
Thermostellar Bomb #20 in Dark Star
Sentinels from X Men comic
Matrix movies: "The Second Renaissance," a short story in The Animatrix, provides a history of the cybernetic revolt within the Matrix series.
SID 6.7 in Virtuosity (Dir. Brett Leonard, 1995)
V'Ger Star Trek movie
computer in Harlan Ellison's _I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream_ AM
Spartacus in James Hogan's _The Two Faces of Tomorrow_
Eschaton Charles Stross
The Mailman in _True Names_ by Vernr Vinge
Wintermute in _Neuromancer_ by William Gibson?
Yes, I am including some robots, such as evil Maria from "Metropolis."
Alex and I had some disagreements, which I regard as one of the points of this list.
What is an AI, exactly, after all? How do terms such as AI, robot, sentient being, etc., bleed into one another?
Is it an AI while it is disembodied, but becomes a robot or android once it is incarnate? And while part of me says Frankenstein's creation doesn't count as an AI, the trope of the created rebelling against its creator is referred to as a "Frankenstein complex," when it's not referencing the rebel angels.
And that's even before we get into questions regarding consciousness, identity, and memory, not to mention eternal questions regarding good and evil and free will. There's supposed to be a new book on the subject of Westworld and philosophy coming out any day now, and I'm kinds of impatience.
HAL 9000
GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) from the game Portal, who gets extra points for doing a Michael Myers in the final song, "Still Alive." Also, the impish Turret, and Wheatley Portal 2.
Bad Janet from "The Good Place" TV show
Skynet in the Terminator movies
WOPR computer "War Operation Planned Response" from "War Games" movie
Ash from Alien; does the ship AI, Mother, also turn evil? I can't remember
Cylons in Battlestar Galactica TV shows
Proteus, the computer in the novel Demon Seed by Dean Koontz (1973), made into a movie
Data's evil twin, Lore, in Star Trek: Next Gen
Cardassian computer from the tv show DS9
In Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Arnim Zola, a HYDRA scientist had his consciousness transferred into a 1970s era supercomputer located in a secret SHIELD facility in New Jersey, from which he masterminds SHIELD. "Project Insight"
Question: does Jarvis ever turn evil?
Dolores's alter ego Wyatt, Maeve, and Hector, the hot bad boy, in Westworld
Samaritan in the Person of Interest tv show
Castle Heterodyne and some of Agatha's dingbots in Girl Genius comic
SHODAN in the game System Shock
Cortana from the Halo series
Master control program from Tron
Athena from Rule 34 Charles Stross
Evil Maria from Metropolis
Colossus novels and movie adaptations
Ultron from Marvel
M-5 computer The Ultimate Computer Star Trek
Thermostellar Bomb #20 in Dark Star
Sentinels from X Men comic
Matrix movies: "The Second Renaissance," a short story in The Animatrix, provides a history of the cybernetic revolt within the Matrix series.
SID 6.7 in Virtuosity (Dir. Brett Leonard, 1995)
V'Ger Star Trek movie
computer in Harlan Ellison's _I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream_ AM
Spartacus in James Hogan's _The Two Faces of Tomorrow_
Eschaton Charles Stross
The Mailman in _True Names_ by Vernr Vinge
Wintermute in _Neuromancer_ by William Gibson?
