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