From HAL 9000 to M3GAN: What film's evil robots tell us about contemporary tech fears by Adam Daniel, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

The killer robot is far from a simple villain. It is a mirror held up to cultural questions we have about human autonomy and responsibility in the digital age.

HAL 9000 of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) represented this threat through a disembodied AI that icily turned against its human creators.

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This might sound at once alarmist and banal, evoking Hollywood’s Terminator franchise. But the HAL 9000 envisioned by Stanley Kubrick is perhaps a closer metaphor.

Medicom Toy has revealed a replica prop for the HAL 9000 supercomputer, which first appeared in the cult-classic sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Then again, the HAL 9000 replica was ambitious and was already fraught with problems early on. The company, known for its faithful recreation of movie props, naturally went all out on the hi-tech ...

Revealed way back in the late Summer of 2018, MRG’s HAL-9000 replica smart speaker was officially licensed from Warner Brothers and as a result featured an impressive level of accuracy ...

A crowdfunding project for a voice-activated HAL 9000 replica has gone bust after the company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

You can make your own HAL 9000 AI computer with a Raspberry Pi and Google Assistant too. Thankfully, you don't have to worry about this one going rogue.