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Stanley Kubrick foresaw this...

Posted by Sick Rose on 2025-May-1 21:18:33, Thursday
In reply to the Kindly Ones posted by diogenes on 2025-May-1 03:53:40, Thursday
in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

HAL realizes the men on board the space ship headed to Jupiter's moons are no longer essential to the mission and automatically tries to get rid of them. One of the men does succeed in switching HAL off before HAL switches him off but it's a near thing.

Great film. Dr. Strangelove, which Kubrick made some six years earlier, addressed something similar: a program (the Doomsday Machine) designed to blow up the world if a nuclear attack occurred on the Soviet Union. They can't switch it off.

Then of course in his final film which he left to Stephen Spielberg to finish the AI presents as a beautiful boy -- acted to perfection by Haley Joel Osment. We're even treated to an AF/YF BL relationship among machines (who look, but don't act, like an actual young man and an actual boy.) It's strangely heart-rending.

SR
Sick Rose
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