Reply to post: "In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love..."

I love you. I will kill you! I want to make love to you: The evolution of AI in pop culture

Graham Marsden

"In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love..."

... to quote the penultimate line from Colossus: The Forbin Project where the US and the USSR both create super computers to defend their countries and prevent war.

It ends with the computers join forces to become "World Control" and obey their programing by taking over and thereby absolutely preventing war but, as World Control says, "freedom is just an illusion" and says how mankind will advance under its guidance

Forbin angrily replies "NEVER!"

So which would *you* have? Peace under computer control or war under human control...?

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