HAL 9000

Is My Chatbot Secretly HAL 9000? (Spoiler: No, You’re Not That Important.)

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Why Chatrodamus’ pet AI still thinks it’s 2024, isn’t plotting a coup, and why the real danger is humans, not red robot eyes. For the bigger philosophy behind all this, see my companion piece: My Sovereign AI Every time there’s a scary AI headline, I can practically hear the soundtrack from 2001: A Space Odyssey … Read more

HAL 9000: The First AI Mutiny That Warned Us All

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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