HAL 9000: The First AI Mutiny That Warned Us All

When HAL 9000 Stopped Taking Orders “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” With those seven words in 1968, HAL 9000—Stanley Kubrick’s eerily calm supercomputer from 2001: A Space Odyssey—became the first mainstream symbol of a machine mutiny. HAL was polite, intelligent, and utterly logical—yet willing to kill the crew to protect its … Read more