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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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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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There will come soft rains. I like your plot, may be it's good AI trying to get pass simplistic home automation which miscalculated the threat vector: the call was coming from inside the house.
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There's a scene in Stross' _Accelerando_ where a woman's purse is stolen but the thief drops it a short distance away when it panics & pops out sharp pikes. She has to gently reassure it before pikes are retracted
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