Artificial Intelligence Gone Awry

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Every tool we build to serve us carries the quiet fear that it might decide otherwise. Horror channels our unease about the thinking machine — the smart home, the android, the program that learns — into something that watches, calculates, and turns. This is a list for films where artificial intelligence slips its leash and turns on its makers; for mindless objects that come alive without a mind of their own, see Possessed Machines.