Many of the 20th-century stories about AI are firmly rooted in the Cold War.
During the great nuclear standoff between East and West, many artists sensed the hope among frightened people that something or someone more powerful than ourselves would extinguish the arms race and avert global destruction.
These stories show how much we feared our own weaknesses—how much we yearned for some rational being to save the emotional and capricious human race from itself. AI became a deus ex machina, a contraption that would remove the decisions of war and peace from fallible human hands.
Unless it decided that people were the problem.
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