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Artificial intelligence used to know its place.

Even in fiction when it was trying to destroy us.

In 2001 a space odyssey,

Dave the astronaut, unplugs the supercomputer Hal, who sings rather drunkenly and then stops.

Orak, that all-knowing Perspect suitcase on the TV series Blake 7, could be silenced just by yanking

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