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