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nemof | 7 years ago

i'm reminded of the prologue of Ian Bank's Excession which describes how a ship Mind (a vast incredibly powerful AI) is overwhelmed and subverted, its ship taken over by an excessive and overwhelming force, and only a solitary drone is able to make it off the ship after running a gambit as the force tries to stop the drone. most of the attack, the attempt to defend against it and the final hail mary by the drone takes place within thousands of a second.

also i'm reminded of battlestar galactica and how deeply distrustful they are of computers and tech because of everything that has happened to them.

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narrator|7 years ago

There's also the attack of the evil AI known as "The Blight" in Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon The Deep."