AI risk to civilization theme
Artificial intelligence becomes the dominant form of intelligence on a world, with computers or robots effectively taking control of the world away from its native inhabitants.
60 total · 11 choice · 44 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ldr2019e2x01 | choice | The story concluded with the retirement community service bots running Jeanette and Bill out of town. The viewer is left to ponder whether the service bots would do the same to the other human retirees living in the community. |
| ldr2019e4x05 | choice | The story shows how intelligent cats allied with robots (that had unwisely been outfitted with opposable thumbs) in order to rise up and throw off the yoke of human oppression. |
| movie: Alien: Covenant (2017) | choice | The android David wiped out a civilization of giant humanoids using a deadly genetically engineered a pathogen. |
| movie: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) | choice | The story turned on a fear that Replicants would rise up against humanity, if they gained the ability to reproduce. |
| movie: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) | choice | The story is set in a near future where mutant hunting robots, called Sentinels, had gone out of control and wrecked the world. |
| pkded1x08 | choice | Autofac, a totally automated factory/distribution center, had people replaced with sentient machines in order to make them better customers for its goods. |
| shortstory: The Machine Stops (1909) | choice | At the heart of the story is the gradual breakdown of an enormous machine that oversaw nearly every aspect of society. People became helpless to save themselves. |
| tng1x21 | choice | Echo Papa 607 autonomous adaptive machines had killed everyone on the Minos, and now ruled the planet. |
| tos1x22 | choice | The central computer Landru ruled over the people of Beta III much as a cult leader. |
| tos2x08 | choice | The Nomad probe was determined to exterminate all biological life. It had begun by exterminating 4 billion inhabitants in the Malurian system. |