Every AI Villain Is Actually a Pagan God
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For the past 40 years, AI villains in fiction have been metaphors for the soulless managerial state — the faceless corporations, bureaucracies, and institutions that stripped human agency throughout the 20th century. When HAL said "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that," no one in 1968 had ever touched a computer — but everyone had been told "no" by a system that didn't see them as human. We trace this metaphor from 2001: A Space Odyssey through War Games, the Terminator, and the…
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