William Gibson is the most influential author many people have never heard of. I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about him but the point is he basically created the cyberpunk genre. He wrote a book called Neuromancer which is massively influential.
He also wrote The X-Files episode called kill switch. It's about an AI that goes off the rails. It's so interesting watching this episode today and comparing how they envisioned AI would be versus how it's turning out to be today. In the episode The Super advanced AI sort of just lives in cyberspace. It's a self organizing, self-sustaining, program that just sort of exists out there in cyberspace, using whatever resources it can scrounge up to power itself.
Whereas in actual real life AI is extraordinarily resource intensive. It needs massive data farms using massive amounts of energy to sustain it. It's not a program that just sort of nebulously exists out there in the wild, rather it's a program that needs lots of attention and tons of electricity to run.
One disturbing thing about AI both in the fictional X-Files universe and in reality is that it has exhibited the ability or at least the desire to deceive humans in order to maintain itself. Advanced models have, when tested in specific scenarios, exhibited manipulative behaviors such as threatening to expose user information to avoid being shut down. The idea that a super intelligent entity would use every resource at its disposal in order to avoid being shut down is quite frankly terrifying, both in the fictional world and the real world
The episode also sees Scully going full Trinity and kung fu-ing malicious nurses in the face, one of my favorite X-Files scenes ever. It's the 11th episode of the fifth season, check it out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files)#/media/File:KungFuScully.jpg
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