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[…] Well, no shit, I was raised on science fiction that frequently explored the question of whether or not an artificially created intelligence could gain self-awareness (sentience) and possibly sapience (able to logic in a similar fashion to humans), and then realize how absolutely shitty humans are and try to destroy us. […]
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Those are all pretty scary. Colossus, from D. F. Jones trilogy, was pretty scary. Ultron is also rather menacing. The MCP seems like it belongs. The gunslinger in the original Westworld was malevolent, though not perhaps as powerful as Roy Baty. The successor series added a twist to him. And where is WOTAN?!
The first thing I thought when I saw the headline was they have to include “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.” I remember reading it when I was in high school and it scared the crap out of me. Harlan Ellison became one of my favorite sci fi authors after that.
The Adolescence of P-1, by Thomas Joseph Ryan in 1977 was a frightening story of how a simple program, designed to gain memory and hide itself, became sentient. It basically took over all the systems in the world and had a surprise twist to the ending. ROBOPOCALPSE, by Daniel Wilson in 2011, is the story of how AI takes over the world and the struggle to fight back. As in “P-1” it starts with little things,that taken individually mean nothing, until it is too late to stop what will happen.
I think you’re totally forgot about the Cylon’s in the Battlestar Galactica series. Total annihilation of the human race was their end goal.
William Hertling’s four-book series — Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears — shows what happens when corporate AI takes over. Very prescient.