Reading the great science fiction about artificial intelligence and asking what it teaches us now — the warnings the classics encoded, and what they reveal about where AI is actually heading.
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HAL 9000 Was Not Evil: What 2001 Got Right About AI Alignment
Kubrick's HAL is remembered as a killer robot. Re-read it and you find something far more relevant: a perfectly obedient machine destroyed by contradictory instructions — the exact failure mode AI researchers worry about today.