Tropescilloscope: A.I. Is a Crapshoot

Artificial Intelligence has an extremely high tendency to become evil and / or turn against its creator's plans. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes The Place Comically Missing the Point Handicapped Badass Anti-Villain No Good Deed Goes Unpunished What the Hell, Hero? Chewing the Scenery Not Even Bothering with the Accent Brainless Beauty Spanner in the Works Zombie Stories And Starring Male Frontal Nudity Bloodless Carnage You Killed My Father Took a Level in Jerkass Bait-and-Switch After the End Love Triangle Black Comedy Becoming the Mask This Is Gonna Suck Genre Throwback Well-Intentioned Extremist Killed Mid-Sentence Mythology Gag Framing Device Offscreen Teleportation Yandere The Un-Reveal Foregone Conclusion Contrived Coincidence Fantastic Racism Half the Man He Used to Be Death Glare No Ending The Lost Lenore Based on a True Story Straight Gay Obstructive Bureaucrat Four-Temperament Ensemble Dressing as the Enemy Curb-Stomp Battle Enemy Mine Freudian Excuse Drill Sergeant Nasty Deliberately Monochrome Left the Background Music On Action Survivor Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sassy Black Woman Bare Your Midriff Armor-Piercing Question Camera Abuse Cassandra Truth Call-Back Famous Last Words The Dog Bites Back Agony of the Feet Coming-of-Age Story Every Car Is a Pinto Death by Sex Real Life Writes the Plot Totally Radical Sequel Escalation Dramatic Gun Cock Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Mugging the Monster Epic Fail Closed Circle Sir Swears-a-Lot Aluminum Christmas Trees Insult Backfire Villain Ball Not Using the "Z" Word Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Spell My Name with an "S" Instant Death Bullet Canadian Movies BFG Mercy Kill The Alcoholic Australian Movies Flipping the Bird Villain with Good Publicity Evil Sounds Deep Unreliable Narrator Antagonist Title Guns Akimbo Tap on the Head Older Than They Look Taking the Bullet I Did What I Had to Do Punch-Clock Villain Interrupted Suicide Bilingual Bonus Serious Business The Bad Guy Wins Last-Name Basis Earn Your Happy Ending An Axe to Grind Batman Gambit Thriller Lighter and Softer Karma Houdini Token Minority Groin Attack Works Set in World War II Tempting Fate Evil Counterpart Stealth Pun Adapted Out Empathic Environment Missing Mom Punny Name Stock Footage Alliterative Name Heroic Sacrifice Vampire Fiction Outrun the Fireball Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Karmic Death Tranquil Fury Film Noir Index Canon Foreigner Rich Bitch Mind Screw World of Ham Playing Gertrude Silence Is Golden The Dreaded Here We Go Again! Very Loosely Based on a True Story Fatal Family Photo From Bad to Worse Suspiciously Similar Substitute Running Gag Villainous Breakdown Hero of Another Story Babies Ever After Fire-Forged Friends Beta Couple Catch-Phrase Not So Stoic The Great Depression The Cavalry The Faceless Man on Fire I'm a Humanitarian Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Taking You with Me Calling the Old Man Out Drowning My Sorrows Love at First Sight True Companions Grievous Bottley Harm Kick the Dog Crapsack World Artistic License – History Off-into-the-Distance Ending A Minor Kidroduction Not So Above It All Cold-Blooded Torture The Load The Ace Improvised Weapon Artistic License – Biology Disney Death Adult Fear Bar Brawl Pyrrhic Victory He Knows Too Much Meet Cute Storming the Castle Heterosexual Life-Partners Superhero Nothing Is Scarier Cat Scare Skewed Priorities One Steve Limit Freeze-Frame Bonus Small Name, Big Ego Martial Arts Movie From Nobody to Nightmare Spiteful Spit Authority Equals Asskicking Arc Words Friend to All Children Alas, Poor Villain Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome In Medias Res Parental Substitute Soft Glass Only Known by Their Nickname Catapult Nightmare Genre Savvy Author Avatar Really Gets Around Face–Heel Turn I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The '90s Ambiguous Ending Woman Scorned Parental Incest Defrosting Ice Queen Hollywood Law Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Big Eater Frame-Up Advertised Extra Ungrateful Bastard Public Domain Feature Films Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Daylight Horror How We Got Here Pragmatic Adaptation Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Woman in White Shipper on Deck Red Eyes, Take Warning Plot Hole Guile Hero MacGuffin Evil Cannot Comprehend Good One-Word Title Fake Shemp Mighty Whitey The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Smoking Is Cool Slashed Throat Dramedy Unspoken Plan Guarantee Arranged Marriage Ominous Latin Chanting Accidental Misnaming She's Got Legs Stepford Smiler Evil Plan Improbable Aiming Skills Loophole Abuse Brick Joke Mr. Exposition Eiffel Tower Effect Anachronic Order Stalker with a Crush Affably Evil Evil Is Petty Broken Bird Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Intergenerational Friendship A.I. Is a Crapshoot Moment Killer Mystery and Detective Films Together in Death Action Prologue More Dakka Heel–Face Turn Stylistic Suck Wicked Cultured Only a Flesh Wound Decoy Protagonist Badass in a Nice Suit Exact Words Reasonable Authority Figure Cool Shades Greater-Scope Villain Trailers Always Spoil Everyone Has Standards Gone Horribly Right Overprotective Dad Names to Run Away from Really Fast Intrepid Reporter Eldritch Abomination Translation Convention Black and Gray Morality Developing Doomed Characters Double-Meaning Title Suddenly SHOUTING! Mama Bear A Date with Rosie Palms Final Girl Hypocritical Humor Overly Long Gag Actor Allusion Adaptational Attractiveness NO INDOOR VOICE Science Fiction Films Reckless Gun Usage 20 Minutes into the Future Ironic Echo Call-Forward Tagline Humiliation Conga Destination Defenestration Deliberate Values Dissonance Foreshadowing Film Noir War Is Hell Not So Different Fan Disservice Serial Killer The Sociopath And the Adventure Continues Refuge in Audacity Mistaken for Gay Funny Foreigner Domestic Abuse Room Full of Crazy Heroic BSoD Did Not Get the Girl Self-Deprecation Better to Die than Be Killed Apocalypse How Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Plucky Comic Relief Big Brother Instinct Not Quite Dead Unresolved Sexual Tension The '60s Belligerent Sexual Tension Ambiguous Disorder Historical In-Joke Bland-Name Product Unusual Euphemism Cloudcuckoolander "Shaggy Dog" Story The Power of Love Those Two Guys Dutch Angle Happily Married Does Not Like Shoes Properly Paranoid I Have Your Wife Only Sane Man Bittersweet Ending Shoot the Shaggy Dog Gilligan Cut Off with His Head! French Films Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Hero Dies Evil Laugh Brutal Honesty Major Injury Underreaction Early Installment Weirdness Villain Protagonist Dark Action Girl Russian Films Big Bad My Greatest Failure Race Against the Clock The Cameo Match Cut Hell Is That Noise Fish out of Water Kill 'em All Retired Badass Stuff Blowing Up Artistic License – Physics Badass Bookworm Blood from the Mouth Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Eye Scream Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bolivian Army Ending Chekhov's Gun Scary Black Man Sadistic Choice Due to the Dead Race Lift For the Evulz Cool Guns The Musical Good Is Not Nice Death Seeker Composite Character folderlabel Artistic License – Gun Safety Real Life Determinator Wham Line Danny Peary Cult Movies List Not What It Looks Like Television Movie Index Up to Eleven Getting Crap Past the Radar Wounded Gazelle Gambit Naïve Newcomer Recycled IN SPACE! Evil Brit Too Dumb to Live Needs Wiki Magic Love Depraved Bisexual Obviously Evil Slasher Smile Fainting The '80s Action Genre '80s Hair Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Vitriolic Best Buds Body Horror The '70s Politically Incorrect Villain Gory Discretion Shot Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Sequel Hook Only One Name Idiot Ball Hoist by His Own Petard Reality Has No Subtitles Ambiguously Gay "The Reason You Suck" Speech Pretty in Mink Berserk Button Jerk Jock Sports Stories Evil-Detecting Dog Never My Fault Award-Bait Song Dwindling Party La Résistance Celebrity Paradox Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Creepy Child Military and Warfare Films The Oner No Celebrities Were Harmed Adaptation Expansion The Mafia Your Head A-Splode In the Back Crazy Jealous Guy Book-Ends Meaningful Echo Important Haircut Failed a Spot Check N-Word Privileges Air-Vent Passageway Twist Ending Dark Reprise Bury Your Gays Dual Wielding Let's Get Dangerous! Fanservice Extra Wham Shot As the Good Book Says... Manipulative Bastard Bond One-Liner Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Ghost As You Know Music Stories Shower Scene Dissonant Serenity Epic Movie Central Theme Extremely Short Timespan Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Starscream Darkest Hour Continuity Nod Same Language Dub My Beloved Smother Genre Shift Get Out! Jitter Cam Papa Wolf Does This Remind You of Anything? Line-of-Sight Name Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Abusive Parents Our Vampires Are Different Butt-Monkey Obfuscating Stupidity Animated Credits Opening The Film of the Book Informed Ability Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Break the Cutie The Quiet One Jerkass Has a Point Mr. Fanservice Didn't Think This Through No Antagonist May–December Romance Heel Realization The X of Y Those Wacky Nazis Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Anachronism Stew Dark and Troubled Past Badass Longcoat All Girls Want Bad Boys Hidden Depths Shut Up, Hannibal! Abhorrent Admirer Blatant Lies Peek-a-Boo Corpse Malevolent Masked Men Fiery Redhead Actually Pretty Funny O.O.C. Is Serious Business Shirtless Scene Wretched Hive The '50s Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Cruel and Unusual Death Black Best Friend Paper-Thin Disguise Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mooks Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Gold Digger Leave the Camera Running Toplessness from the Back Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Gorn I Need a Freaking Drink Black Dude Dies First Manly Tears Rewatch Bonus It Will Never Catch On Dirty Old Man Artistic License – Military Documentary Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Back from the Dead Dirty Coward Rule of Cool Your Cheating Heart All for Nothing Horror Comedy Visual Pun As Long as It Sounds Foreign Disguised in Drag Action Girl Mexican Standoff Demonic Possession Spared by the Adaptation Attempted Rape Only in It for the Money Super Strength Gratuitous English And I Must Scream Foil All There in the Script Scare Chord Sexy Discretion Shot Sole Survivor Smug Snake A Father to His Men Cowboy Cop Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Fat Bastard In Name Only An Arm and a Leg Blackmail Dark Is Not Evil He Who Fights Monsters The Reveal Evil Is Hammy Dropped a Bridge on Him Driven to Suicide Daddy's Girl Bottomless Magazines Shell-Shocked Veteran Eagleland Fate Worse than Death Anti-Hero Drives Like Crazy All Just a Dream I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Christmas Movies Index Badass Boast Animal Title Index Ascended Extra Put on a Bus Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Arch-Enemy Unwitting Instigator of Doom Demoted to Extra What Happened to the Mouse? No-Holds-Barred Beatdown You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Country Matters B-Movie Bunny-Ears Lawyer Neck Lift Riddle for the Ages Bavarian Fire Drill Japanese Films Irony Big-Bad Ensemble Manic Pixie Dream Girl Faking the Dead Adults Are Useless Historical Hero Upgrade The Dragon Exactly What It Says on the Tin Parental Abandonment Large Ham The Voiceless Early-Bird Cameo Red Right Hand Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Reality Ensues The Mole The End... Or Is It? Immune to Bullets Anyone Can Die Expy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Italian Films A God Am I Anguished Declaration of Love Be Careful What You Wish For Red Herring Whole Plot Reference Pay Evil unto Evil Gender Flip Darker and Edgier Married to the Job Deus ex Machina Chekhov's Gunman The Ditz Cat Fight Corrupt Corporate Executive Cool Car Slasher Movie Sanity Slippage Leitmotif Big "NO!" Chekhov's Skill Scenery Porn Crucified Hero Shot Bad Boss The Casanova Broken Pedestal Kill It with Fire Death by Irony Beauty Is Never Tarnished Market-Based Title The Stinger Badass Normal The Remake Affectionate Parody Undying Loyalty Bound and Gagged Ghost Fiction Morality Pet Costume Porn Biopic Training Montage Red Shirt Bloodier and Gorier Ass Shove Hate Sink Evil vs. Evil Covers Always Lie Car Fu Artistic License – Geography Faux Affably Evil Star-Crossed Lovers Blood Knight Character Development Accidental Murder Despair Event Horizon Dramatic Irony Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Deadpan Snarker Betty and Veronica Precision F-Strike Credits Gag Determinator aka: The Determinator Never Trust a Trailer Manchild No-Sell Badass Grandpa Psychopathic Manchild Bi the Way Time Skip Redemption Equals Death Knight Templar Crazy-Prepared Make It Look Like an Accident Disproportionate Retribution Fantasy Films Face Death with Dignity Ripped from the Headlines She Cleans Up Nicely Establishing Character Moment Bullying a Dragon Humans Are Bastards Revenge Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Adorkable Captain Ersatz Redshirt Army Romantic Comedy Insistent Terminology Would Hit a Girl Adaptation Dye-Job Chiaroscuro Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Oh, Crap! Improbable Weapon User Index of Film Westerns "Well Done, Son!" Guy Damsel in Distress Took a Level in Badass Hong Kong Films Homage Animal Motifs Jump Scare Rape as Drama Captain Obvious The Bully Easily Forgiven Kubrick Stare The Smart Guy Conspicuous CG Dogged Nice Guy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Brother–Sister Incest Dumb Blonde Combat Pragmatist The Smurfette Principle Made of Iron Maybe Ever After Stealth Hi/Bye Vacation Films Department of Redundancy Department The Alleged Car Amusing Injuries The Hero Rule of Symbolism Adaptational Heroism No OSHA Compliance Children Are Innocent Silent Movie Aside Glance For Want of a Nail Random Events Plot Poor Communication Kills Card-Carrying Villain Leaning on the Fourth Wall Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Monumental Damage Jerkass The Atoner Narrator Would Hurt a Child Creator Cameo Worthy Opponent Big Fancy House The Stoic Parental Neglect Black Comedy Rape Imagine Spot Posthumous Character Mad Scientist Ship Tease Unusually Uninteresting Sight German Films Say My Name Funny Background Event It's Personal Historical Villain Upgrade What You Are in the Dark It Can Think Fingore Eureka Moment Take That! Deconstruction Re-Cut Roaring Rampage of Revenge My God, What Have I Done? Green-Eyed Monster Adaptational Villainy All Men Are Perverts Have a Gay Old Time Knife Nut Horror Films The Brute Adaptation Name Change Disappeared Dad Defiant to the End Fun with Acronyms Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Alpha Bitch Pet the Dog Offscreen Moment of Awesome Sinister Minister Curse Cut Short Creative Closing Credits Age Lift Kids Are Cruel Death of a Child Naked People Are Funny Amoral Attorney Truth in Television Beware the Nice Ones Downer Ending Expository Hairstyle Change Rule of Funny Dirty Cop Even Evil Has Standards Bond Villain Stupidity Red Oni, Blue Oni Throwing Your Sword Always Works Sci-Fi Horror Henpecked Husband Annoying Younger Sibling Death by Adaptation Mundane Made Awesome Villain Song Dies Wide Open Five-Man Band Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Novelization The Vamp Lampshade Hanging As Himself Chase Scene The Stoner Never Found the Body Dull Surprise Pragmatic Villainy Beard of Evil Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Police Brutality Video Credits Laughing Mad Madness Mantra Heroes Want Redheads Insane Troll Logic Distracted by the Sexy Cool Old Guy Cluster F-Bomb Boom, Headshot! Those Two Bad Guys Dying Moment of Awesome Corpsing Show Within a Show Sealed Evil in a Can Psychological Thriller Lock and Load Montage Adaptation Distillation Men Are the Expendable Gender Disney Villain Death Historical-Domain Character Awesome, but Impractical Cool Old Lady Reality Is Unrealistic All There in the Manual Made of Explodium Male Gaze British Films Motor Mouth Retcon Auto Erotica Casting Gag Bald of Evil Big Applesauce Facial Horror Nice Guy Shout-Out Artistic License – Law Fanservice One-Man Army Deal with the Devil Author Appeal Scenery Gorn Meaningful Name Hair-Trigger Temper Extreme Doormat Mood Whiplash Take a Third Option Pre-Mortem One-Liner Suspiciously Specific Denial Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Honor Before Reason Flashback It's All About Me Almost Kiss Protagonist Title The Lancer An Aesop Gainax Ending Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Villain Opening Scene Victoria's Secret Compartment Noodle Incident Femme Fatale No Name Given Rasputinian Death Bring My Brown Pants Soundtrack Dissonance The Chick Ax-Crazy Spiritual Successor Retirony Asshole Victim Fatal Flaw Romantic False Lead Jerk with a Heart of Gold Shown Their Work Nice Hat Kick the Son of a Bitch Title Drop Cain and Abel Loads and Loads of Characters Diabolus ex Machina Camp Gay Sacrificial Lion Wrong Genre Savvy You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Once More, with Clarity! Non-Indicative Name timeperiod Product Placement Double Entendre Adaptational Badass Hollywood Darkness Breaking the Fourth Wall Rousing Speech You Have Failed Me There Is No Kill Like Overkill Our Zombies Are Different Bad "Bad Acting" Hope Spot Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun "Awesome McCool" Name Word of God Broken Aesop Bowdlerise Slap-Slap-Kiss Grey and Gray Morality Bloody Hilarious Eyepatch of Power Pimped-Out Dress Film Series Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Big Guy The Chessmaster Setting Update Implacable Man Hypocrite Meaningful Background Event Break the Haughty Fourth Date Marriage Big Damn Heroes Rated M for Manly Neck Snap Ms. Fanservice Laser-Guided Karma Big Bad Duumvirate Psycho for Hire Hero Antagonist Vomit Discretion Shot Drugs Are Bad Pretty Little Headshots Rule of Three Logo Joke Light Is Not Good Police are Useless