Author: Berniece Hieckmann

I’m sorry Dave. I am afraid I can’t do that.  Die-hard science fiction fans might get the reference from the cult classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The line, delivered by the spaceship’s intelligent onboard computer HAL 9000, represents the very moment when the downside of sharing a spacecraft with a machine significantly-smarter-than-you is revealed – with dire consequences for the ship’s captain. But Kubrick’s sci-fi epic is certainly not the only pop culture example that graphically depicts just how pear-shaped things can go when mankind cedes control to machine: search movies that relate to artificial intelligence (AI) and a long…