Loss of control
The moment when David Bowman, Mission Commander of the spaceship Discovery One, discovers that HAL (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer) has its own plan.
From Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Movies have been imagining what could happen if humans lose control of artificial intelligence for decades.
In the seminal 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubric’s HAL learns that two astronauts on a space mission it is controlling are planning to shut it down. In order to protect the mission, HAL sets out to kill them.
Sentient AI systems also go rogue in I Robot, Blade Runner, Terminator, War Games, Transcendence, The Matrix, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, to name a few.
One of the most thought provoking aspects of these films is the question: what happens if AI develops its own agenda and doesn’t want to be shut down?
“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.”