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)

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