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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 31
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    My favorite scifi AI trope is the smart home that locks itself down into a fortress in response to an unexpected threat scenario and then the *good* guys have to figure out how to get past defenses and talk it back down to not locked down. Much more interesting than terminator.

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 31
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        Rick does the fortress retrofit to the family home in Rick and Morty but I don’t think they’ve done the rogue lockdown plot yet. The smart house in Eureka does that in one episode.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 31
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        I’ve seen this a couple of other times but can’t recall where.

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      1. Zhan Li  🇪🇺 🇬🇧‏ @thezhanly May 31
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        Here’s the TVTropes pagehttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmartHouse …

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      1. mtraven‏ @mtraven May 31
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        Not quite the same, but in Ubik (Philip Dick) the protagonist is so broke his front door won't let him out of his apartment until he pays his bills.

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      1. Čhepulis • • •‏ @ingleeshh May 31
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        This would make for a fantastic spiritual continuation to the Home Alone series. Sci-fi horror. Get @IncredibleCulk to star in it, building makeshift defenses against the somewhat wacky (and thus, even more horrifying) home AI. Title: "Home AI-1"

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      1. Fú lā jī mǐ'ěr‏ @vladw0rld May 31
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        wasn't there an Asimov story like this where they finally got through the security perimeter on all fours, because that made the AI think they were animals?

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      1. Jernau Morat Gurgeh‏ @himura_k3nshin May 31
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        In a sense, HAL 9000 was definitely this trope.

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      1. erica robles-anderson‏ @fstflofscholars May 31
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        Completely with you on this one. No contest.

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        Reminds me of “I have no mouth and I must scream”

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      1. Muhammad Fawwaz Abiyyu Anvilen‏ @fawwazanvilen Jun 1
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        Loved this scene in @StarTrekNetflix where Michael argues with the ship's computer whether it is ethical or not to let her escape from the brig.https://youtu.be/QjxmfOd79vw 

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