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By JAKE COYLE and LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writers<\/strong><\/p>\n

As AI takes over the world in the metaphorical sense \u2014 for now, at least \u2014 it\u2019s the perfect time to turn to the movies and TV shows that have shown AI actually taking over the world, and more. From \u201cAvengers: Age of Ultron\u201d to \u201cWestworld\u201d to various iterations of \u201cStar Trek,\u201d AI has shown a robust presence in popular culture over the past two generations.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a selection of films that have depicted AI over the years \u2014 and what they\u2019ve said about the world in the process.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Terminator\u2019<\/h4>\n

As James Cameron said recently,<\/a> \u201cI warned you guys in 1984 and you didn\u2019t listen.\u201d Cameron\u2019s dystopic science fiction \u2013 particularly his 1984 original and its 1991 sequel, both with Arnold Schwarzenegger \u2014 imagined a future world where a military computer system named Skynet grows sentient and, after humans try to \u201cpull the plug,\u201d starts a nuclear holocaust. \u201cThey say it got smart,\u201d John Connor\u2019s father says in the original film. Ever since, \u201cThe Terminator\u201d has loomed as perhaps the preeminent cinematic vision of a world leading inevitably to AI rule: the prophecy of Arnold.<\/p>\n

\u20182001: A Space Odyssey\u2019<\/h4>\n

If AI has a voice, it\u2019s HAL 9000\u2019s. Stanley Kubrick\u2019s colossal 1968 masterwork envisioned a human history in which the creation of tools, from ape bludgeon to gleaming space station, has evolutionary consequences. HAL, the red-eyed antagonist voiced with disquieting calm by Douglas Rain, was technically a child. (It tells the astronaut Dave that it\u2019s 9-years-old.) HAL can easily win at chess and read lips. But much of what HAL is up to remains hidden behind its opaque machine exterior; in deep space, it begins maliciously eliminating the astronauts. Maybe HAL would have gotten along better with Siri or Alexa.<\/p>\n

\u2018WALL-E\u2019<\/h4>\n

For a kids movie, the future offered up by \u201cWALL-E\u201d (2008) is remarkably haunting. An Earth destroyed by pollution. A lazy human race locked to their screens and stuck in their La-Z-Boys. All thinking passed on to computers. On the cruise ship onto which all humanity has fled, a very HAL-like AI named AUTO has been handed all power to steer their course. Thankfully, life \u2013 and love \u2013 blooms again on Earth.<\/p>\n

\u2018War Games\u2019<\/h4>\n

Not all movie AIs are all bad. The 1983 Cold War-era thriller \u201cWar Games\u201d starred Matthew Broderick as a teenage tech whiz who nearly sets off World War III after inadvertently hacking into computer of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The computer chillingly doesn\u2019t recognize the difference between a game and real life \u2013 a particularly worrisome matter when it comes to thermonuclear war. The movie culminates with its revelation of mutually assured destruction. \u201cA strange game,\u201d the computer says. \u201cThe only winning move is not to play.\u201d President Ronald Reagan watched \u201cWar Games\u201d the week it came out<\/a> and questioned military leaders on how realistic it was. They determined it wasn\u2019t far-fetched at all, leading to the establishment of early security guardrails in government computer systems.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Mitchells vs. the Machines\u2019<\/h4>\n

In Mike Rianda\u2019s brilliantly antic 2021 animated feature, produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller<\/a>, a family road trip runs into a robot apocalypse. Family battles over phones at the dinner table take on a more extreme form when an Alexa-like, phone-based AI named Pal (voiced by Olivia Colman) begins taking over the world. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like stealing people\u2019s data and giving it to a hyper-intelligent AI as part of an unregulated tech monopoly was a bad thing,\u201d says the company\u2019s CEO. But not everything computes for the AI. The war is won by a flawed, funny family and their dog Monchi who short-circuits the robots. \u201cDog? Pig? Loaf of Bread?\u201d Life finds a way.<\/p>\n

\u2018Blade Runner\u2019<\/h4>\n

Ridley Scott and his \u201cBlade Runner\u201d team in 1982 imagined a 2019 with smart homes and video calling (as well as flying cars and analog polaroid photographs), but it\u2019s the AI replicants \u2019virtually identical to a human,\u201d that still get under people\u2019s skin. There was something provocative about Daryl Hannah\u2019s and Rutger Hauer\u2019s punk, rogue androids \u2013 especially his oft-referenced \u201ctears in rain\u201d speech . But that vision for AI sentience seemed to die with Roy Batty.<\/p>\n

\u2018Simone\u2019<\/h4>\n

Andrew Niccol\u2019s \u201cSimone,\u201d or \u201cS1m0ne,\u201d is not the best-remembered movie but it\u2019s the one that seems most hauntingly relevant for actors on strike worried about their images being owned or, maybe even worse, entirely new movie stars being invented by technology. Al Pacino plays a director whose film is in jeopardy when his actress storms off. To save it, he uses a program to create a perfect computer-generated actor (a synthespian), who doesn\u2019t complain, doesn\u2019t need hair and makeup and takes direction. It works \u2013 too well\u2013and she becomes the biggest star in the world.<\/p>\n

\u2018Her\u2019<\/h4>\n

The AI in question in Spike Jonze\u2019s 2013 film \u201cHer\u201d is simply an operating system at first \u2013 sorting emails, reading messages, remind of appointments and so forth. But the lonely Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) quickly finds himself falling for his OS, named Samantha and voiced by Scarlett Johansson, whose human-like qualities, ability to consistently evolve and mandatory devotion to her operator, start to approximate a fantasy of a real relationship. \u201cHer\u201d also coincided with an explosion of articles about virtual girlfriends in Japan, which have since gone global.<\/p>\n

\u2018Interstellar\u2019<\/h4>\n