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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Intrepid Reporter Only Known by Their Nickname She's Got Legs Darkest Hour Pragmatic Villainy Badass Grandpa Disney Death Contrived Coincidence Eagleland Empathic Environment No Antagonist Naïve Newcomer Taking You with Me Older Than They Look Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Blackmail Daylight Horror The End... Or Is It? Parental Neglect Ax-Crazy Insistent Terminology Here We Go Again! Cassandra Truth Black Comedy Film Noir Index Jerkass Has a Point War Is Hell Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Brick Joke No-Sell Artistic License – Physics Did Not Get the Girl Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie "Shaggy Dog" Story One Steve Limit Bloodier and Gorier folderlabel Ship Tease Setting Update Stuff Blowing Up Killed Mid-Sentence Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Composite Character The Dragon Brother–Sister Incest Tap on the Head Taking the Bullet Heroic BSoD Creator Cameo Idiot Ball Deus ex Machina Obfuscating Stupidity Man on Fire Monumental Damage This Is Gonna Suck Book-Ends Sir Swears-a-Lot As You Know Downer Ending Adaptational Villainy Heroic Sacrifice Femme Fatale Artistic License – Gun Safety The Stoic Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Undying Loyalty Room Full of Crazy Advertised Extra The Ghost Offscreen Teleportation Air-Vent Passageway Author Avatar Arch-Enemy Product Placement Male Frontal Nudity Depraved Bisexual Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Not Using the "Z" Word NO INDOOR VOICE The Smart Guy Smug Snake Action Survivor The Mafia Breaking the Fourth Wall Costume Porn Bottomless Magazines Take That! 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Expy Auto Erotica Coming-of-Age Story Sadistic Choice Death of a Child Bald of Evil The Dreaded Dumb Blonde Everyone Has Standards Off-into-the-Distance Ending Manipulative Bastard For the Evulz Award-Bait Song Historical-Domain Character Friend to All Children Kick the Son of a Bitch Video Credits Bar Brawl Scenery Porn Japanese Films Title Drop Fatal Flaw Bury Your Gays Shell-Shocked Veteran She Cleans Up Nicely Amusing Injuries Shout-Out The Alleged Car Extremely Short Timespan Novelization Adaptation Name Change Plucky Comic Relief The Sociopath Tranquil Fury Epic Movie N-Word Privileges Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Dutch Angle Dark and Troubled Past Dramedy Alpha Bitch Face Death with Dignity Double-Meaning Title Soundtrack Dissonance Visual Pun Not So Above It All The Cameo Paper-Thin Disguise The Power of Love Big-Bad Ensemble Instant Death Bullet Determinator aka: The Determinator No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Camp Gay Evil Is Hammy Horror Comedy Babies Ever After Needs Wiki Magic Love Once More, with Clarity! 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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Evil-Detecting Dog Off with His Head! Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! What You Are in the Dark Slap-Slap-Kiss Nothing Is Scarier Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Manic Pixie Dream Girl Annoying Younger Sibling Heterosexual Life-Partners Dropped a Bridge on Him Pretty in Mink Ascended Extra Moment Killer Stealth Pun Major Injury Underreaction Neck Snap Honor Before Reason Mugging the Monster Does Not Like Shoes Drowning My Sorrows Ironic Echo The Lost Lenore Spiritual Successor Happily Married Red Eyes, Take Warning Jerkass Mr. Fanservice Film Series Spared by the Adaptation Let's Get Dangerous! The Musical Our Vampires Are Different B-Movie Action Prologue Hypocrite Determinator Camera Abuse Bare Your Midriff Despair Event Horizon Apocalypse How Hypocritical Humor Well-Intentioned Extremist Red Shirt Artistic License – Biology Evil Sounds Deep Groin Attack Police Brutality All Just a Dream Twist Ending Cool Old Guy Affably Evil From Bad to Worse Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Make It Look Like an Accident Narrator Based on a True Story Mythology Gag Retirony Batman Gambit Actor Allusion Self-Deprecation Translation Convention Rated M for Manly Authority Equals Asskicking Funny Foreigner Freudian Excuse Ass Shove Ambiguously Gay After the End Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Boom, Headshot! Really Gets Around Cloudcuckoolander Zombie Stories Demoted to Extra The Ace Freeze-Frame Bonus Ripped from the Headlines Exact Words Mercy Kill Even Evil Has Loved Ones Framing Device Hope Spot Would Hit a Girl Disney Villain Death Badass in a Nice Suit Rule of Funny Shut Up, Hannibal! O.O.C. 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Vacation Films Creepy Child No Ending Scenery Gorn Pre-Asskicking One-Liner No OSHA Compliance The Hero The Bad Guy Wins My God, What Have I Done? Skewed Priorities Leaning on the Fourth Wall Trailers Always Spoil Fire-Forged Friends Running Gag Hate Sink Mundane Made Awesome The Chick Damsel in Distress Bond Villain Stupidity Sealed Evil in a Can Broken Pedestal Match Cut Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Bully Bait-and-Switch Kill It with Fire Fun with Acronyms Establishing Character Moment British Films Italian Films Woman in White Chekhov's Skill Dressing as the Enemy Black Dude Dies First Card-Carrying Villain Large Ham Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene In Medias Res Truth in Television Abhorrent Admirer Red Oni, Blue Oni Affectionate Parody Rasputinian Death Exactly What It Says on the Tin Eyepatch of Power Meaningful Name Together in Death Irony Meaningful Background Event Dogged Nice Guy World of Ham Dissonant Serenity Parental Substitute Bland-Name Product Military and Warfare Films Psychological Thriller Pet the Dog Awesome, but Impractical Documentary Genre Savvy Australian Movies Bad Boss Unresolved Sexual Tension Made of Iron Star-Crossed Lovers Becoming the Mask Danny Peary Cult Movies List Fake Shemp Your Cheating Heart Easily Forgiven Facial Horror My Beloved Smother Animal Motifs Mooks Shirtless Scene Villain Ball Public Domain Feature Films Face–Heel Turn I Need a Freaking Drink Non-Indicative Name Curb-Stomp Battle Fainting Bowdlerise "The Reason You Suck" Speech Rich Bitch Take a Third Option Never My Fault Playing Gertrude Chewing the Scenery Imagine Spot Hong Kong Films Getting Crap Past the Radar Call-Forward The Vamp Blatant Lies Only Sane Man Informed Ability Attempted Rape Gory Discretion Shot Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bad "Bad Acting" Insane Troll Logic Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Smurfette Principle Sole Survivor Enemy Mine Kick the Dog Adults Are Useless Antagonist Title Film Noir Slasher Smile Black Comedy Rape Bilingual Bonus Intergenerational Friendship Married to the Job Combat Pragmatist Punny Name Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Car Fu All There in the Script Laser-Guided Karma Unusual Euphemism You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Mad Scientist Villain with Good Publicity Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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