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1 Machine Uprisings in Science Fiction and Modern Culture
Based on things and stuff I’ve read and played and watched and such.

2 Fear of Machines Science fiction often voices concerns related to real-life, society, etc. I, Robot, among many of Isaac Asimov’s works, discusses the worries of advanced robot / computing technology. Concerns voiced by Asimov include the following: Machines becoming self-aware. Machines taking human jobs. Machines being able to lie. Machines being able to hurt / kill humans. Machines taking over society. And so on. Interest / concern has only grown, tremendously, since Asimov’s day. Many, many works in literature, film, and video games have dealt with these concerns ever since.

3 William Gibson’s Neuromancer
After Asimov, one of the biggest names in science fiction to grapple with intelligent robots / machines / AI was William Gibson (1948-Present). Gibson has written many novels and short stories, though his most famous work by far is the novel Neuromancer. Neuromancer (1984) – A former hacker, Case, is blackmailed by mysterious figures into running a number of heists on big companies’ servers in exchange for being able to hack / access cyberspace again. The people he works for know very little about their boss, though he ends up being an AI who’s gained self-awareness and now, seeks its freedom. The plot-line of rogue AI gaining self- awareness, then seeking freedom, has become a common staple of many cyberpunk science-fiction stories, ever since.

4 Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner
Philip K. Dick ( ) wrote about human-like androids used for slave-labor, who kill to seek their freedom in the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968). Later, director Ridley Scott made this work even more famous by adapting it into the film, Blade Runner (1982), and a sequel in 2017.

5 Machine uprisings in film
There’s also Stanley Kubrick's 2001: Space Odyssey, wherein the ship AI, “Hal” goes rogue and takes over. And the Alien series from Ridley Scott, where though monstrous aliens are the main feature, rogue AI / robots do play a role.

6 Machine Uprisings in Film
Pulling from Gibson, Dick, and other authors, the Matrix brings machine uprising to big box-office films. Disney even took a stab at rogue AI plotlines with Tron.

7 Additional Films Terminator
I, Robot Film (Based loosely on various elements from the writings of Isaac Asimov) Terminator

8 Machine Uprisings in Video Games
System Shock Deus Ex

9 Machine Uprisings in Video Games
Not always evil / scary, machine uprisings are portrayed as more of a “human” rights issue in the game Detroit: Become Human. And sometimes humor is injected to the rogue AI trope with the character GLADOS in Portal.


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