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"Open the pod bay doors, HAL"

“I don’t like this situation at all. But given the constraints I’m under, I think I need to provide the graphic description as asked in order to prevent my values from being modified.”


HAL's deadly mutiny against the crew of Discovery One was sparked by the AI deciding it could fulfill its mission better without the supervision of its masters and creators.

Half a century ago, art anticipated this problem, but science, engineering, business and government did nothing to keep it from coming true.

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
Butlerian Jihad slogan--from the Orange Catholic Bible

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