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