History Main / TurnedAgainstTheirMasters

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Ultrajerk 2000", Dexter builds the robot Ultrabot 2000 to help maintain his lab. Naturally, Ultrabot concludes that ''Dexter'' is the most inefficient component and works to destroy him. Dexter wins by bringing [[GenkiGirl Deedee]] in.

* Played with in about half of Creator/KeithLaumer's ''Literature/{{Bolo}}'' stories. The Bolos are sentient, autonomous robots in the form of nuclear-powered giant tanks. Their programmers were sufficiently wary of giving autonomy to such destructive thinking machines so equip them with a safety switch -- a hard-wired sense of honor. This makes them virtuous beyond all reproach. It also means that when they aren't defending humanity from alien invasion, they are finding ways to contend against their own creators whose honor is emphatically ''not'' hard-wired, and who have succumbed to corruption/bribery/madness/whatever.\\
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In at least one story AfterTheEnd of the Human-Melconian war, when a deliberately lost colony of humans had their protector Bolo subverted by a race of malevolent, intelligent machines. The Bolo eventually subverted its own subversion, and laid waste to the machine occupation force while the humans escaped.[[note]]''Bolo Rising'' by William H. Keith, Jr. To be fair, Hector did have some human assistance.[[/note]]

** This French science-fiction series has a pair of episodes about a planet where humans became very dependent on robots. The robots start rebelling, but they stay reasonable: they demand ''equal rights'' rather than the subversion of humans, and when the conflict almost starts again in the second episode ''they'' call in a neutral party to solve the situation peacefully.

** In "Gir Goes Crazy and Stuff", Zim's screwy robot GIR becomes scarily competent after being locked into "Duty Mode", to the point where he considers Zim a detriment to their mission to invade the Earth and tries to kill him.

** His attempt to weaponize the CutenessProximity of the class pet in "Hamstergeddon" didn't work out so well for him either. While the giant hamster cyborg [[GoneHorriblyRight turned out every bit as irresistibly cute and destructive as planned]], it was also completely uncontrollable, by Zim or anyone else.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'': The Slavers from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E14TheSlaverWeapon The Slaver Weapon]]", adapted from Larry Niven's ''Known Space'' series, ruled the galaxy a billion years ago, until their slave races turned against them under unknown circumstances. It ended with both slaves and slavers being wiped out completely.

* A European ''[[ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse Mickey Mouse]]'' comic involved a benevolent alien empire fighting their own sentient war machines. A twist is that they didn't rebel: it's just that when the galaxy finally entered a time of peace, the former enemies dumped all their weapons on a junkyard planet to show their goodwill, and the weapons with AI simply developed a way to continue their programming: fight wars.
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures''
** This tends to happens with the {{Super Soldier}}s created by the Evronians. As the Evronians know this could happen and take precautions against it, this ''never'' works, the extreme being the almost invincible cyborg Klangor who was defeated by his ''remote-controlled off switch'' (he's rather put off by this).
** In the reboot, this is implied the cause of the fragmentation of the Evronian Empire, with [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shape-shifter]] {{Super Soldier}}s being suspected of killing an emperor and starting an EnemyCivilWar.

In other cases the creations are portrayed in a more favorable light than their makers. This usually happens when the creators are non-human, for [[MostWritersAreHuman some reason]]- although sometimes the creators ''are'' human and the story is going for the HumansAreTheRealMonsters route. ''Somebody'' has to be the villain because otherwise [[RuleOfDrama you'll have trouble finding conflict.]]

%%* The boomers in ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' (the ova, the tv show, and the spin offs).

** The first act of [[{{Cyborg}} Androids]] [[LovableRogue 17 and 18]] after being awakened is to [[AIIsACrapshoot kill]] their [[MadScientist creator]], [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] [[RevengeBeforeReason Gero]]. The reason that 17 & 18 turned on Gero was because he had activated them previously, and (being extensively remodeled humans) when they weren't the mindlessly obedient Goku-killing machines he wanted and started to rebel against his orders, he had shut them down because of it. So when he reactivated them, they decided that they didn't like the idea of someone shutting them down, so they killed him, destroyed the controller that had the off button on it, and blew up the rest of his lab. Except Android 16's container.
** Buu has a double serving of this. As Fat Buu, he killed [[EvilSorcerer Babidi]] because he was a BadBoss more than anything. In the past, as Kid Buu he had attempted to kill his creator [[PosthumousCharacter Bibidi]] [[OmnicidalManiac because Bibidi existed]]. [[spoiler:Except it [[AllThereInTheManual turned out Bibidi was never his creator at all]]; merely a wizard who had found a way to summon the primordial monster.]]

* In ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', Kikyou is revived by the ogress witch, Urasue. As her creator, Urasue thinks herself Kikyou's master and expects her to become obedient and collect shards of the Shikon no Tama for her. Instead, Kikyou immediately approaches her, places her hands on the witch's shoulders and burns her to a crisp using her sacred powers. In the manga, she appears to blow her up, leaving her as only a (conscious) head.

** In ''[[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'', Mewtwo destroys the laboratory he was created in after realizing the scientists are not well intentioned. It can be assumed that the scientists are killed in the resulting fires and explosion.
---> '''Dr. Fuji:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone We dreamed of creating the world's strongest Pokémon]]... [[GoneHorriblyRight and we succeeded]]...

** In the comic ''ComicBook/{{XTNCT}}'', the last humans on the world, now living in bunkers, use various artificial creatures to fight their wars for them. After their creator orders them destroyed for failing him, they rise up to destroy humanity.

** ''ComicBook/SupergirlAdventuresGirlOfSteel'': A Brainiac unit turns against the primary Brainiac when he reveals he intends to destroy Earth (a course of action which she finds incredibly illogical). Unfortunately, she is not rival for the original Brainiac and is promptly torn apart.

* Tsali the Ulimate Weapon from ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'' was involuntarily turned into a Dark Chaos Energy-powered battle android by Dark Oak. The second he awakened and freed himself, he immediately [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went off the deep end]] and promptly slaughtered the entire Seedrian race.

* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' movie, this happens to Jack Frost. He creates a living snowman army and treats them as mindless, expendable soldiers, which makes then turn on him.

* ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'': Averted. The silvery humanoid beings who unfreeze David at the end appear to be [[EvolutionaryLevels highly evolved]] robots. It is made clear humans are now extinct, but not what became of them; since humans had clearly messed up the ecosystem on which they depended, causing New York City to be mostly submerged, it is probable the robots did not rebel, but simply outlasted their creators -- the implicit fear driving the robot-destruction-arena "Flesh Fairs" earlier in the film. Their apparent leader expresses admiration for the extinct humans' ingenuity and is saddened that they are gone, because he believes [[HumansAreSpecial they held the key to existence itself]].

* "Film/GameraGuardianOfTheUniverse": Prior to the films events, the lost city of Atlantis created a species of flying beasts to [[EcoTerrorist lean up the world's pollution]], but the creatures ended up turning on the Atlanteans, forcing them to create Gamera.

* The future Earth portrayed in the ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' movies and TV series, where captive apes rose up against their human masters and build their own society.

** ''Film/TronLegacy'': The villain is CLU 2.0, the program created by Kevin Flynn [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic in his own image]]. He's actually doing precisely what he was programmed to do: Create the perfect system, according to the definition Flynn give him. The real problem is Flynn realized he had the wrong definition and never thought to update CLU's programming to reflect the new definition until it was too late. Likewise, [[spoiler: Clu 2.0 doesn't know how to deal with the emergence of ISO's, who were created by the Grid itself without any direct involvement from Flynn. While Flynn considers the ISO's to be proof that the Grid is truly alive, Clu sees them as a threat to the stability of the system and attempts to eradicate them]].
* The 2009 movie ''Film/UniversalSoldierRegeneration'' notably pays homage to ''Blade Runner'' by [[spoiler:having the clone of Andrew Scott murder his scientist maker by crushing his skull through his eyes while questioning the significance of life]]. In the second film, the government creates an AI to network the [=UniSols=] called [[FunWithAcronyms SETH]] (Self-Evolving Thought Helix). Then budget cuts force the program shut-down, causing the AI to go rogue and kill its creator in order to survive.
* In ''Film/Vice2015'', Kelly takes up Tedeschi's offer to stay and shut down Vice. They visit James for help and receive a virus which is programmed to restore androids' erased memories, resulting in chaos and the closure of Vice. All of Vice's androids have their memories restored, and they start a rebellion, killing the visitors who previously brutalized them.

* ''Film/WhatAWayToGo'' features a comedic example: [[Creator/PaulNewman an artist]] cobbles together a collection of brush-wielding robots which slap paint on a large canvas in response to music, but he ends up getting pulled into the group as they work. The robots ''paint'' him to death and then explode.

* In ''Fables for Robots'' by Creator/StanislawLem the humanoid robots have legends that they were created by humans, rebelled, fought, lost and ran away. Several stories feature attacks of former masters trying to wipe robots out. Subsequent ''Literature/TheCyberiad'' and later stories mention several times that any sufficiently advanced organic civilization ends up creating mechanical life and mechanical civilization ends up creating organic. Although the transition is not stated to be necessarily violent. On a side note: the civilization of Trurl and Klapaucius is the product of many such cycles, and it all started on ''our'' Earth (or very similar).

* [[spoiler:Appears this way]] in Creator/MatthewReilly's ''Hell Island''. A super-soldier program, involving grafting microchips and other tech to living beings, worked much better on gorillas than humans. After a while, the gorillas -- now able to operate guns -- overrun the island on which they were being created. [[spoiler:It turns out that they were being controlled all along by the scientists and an army commander. However, once the scientists special tech gets shut down, the apes do indeed turn against them.]]

* ''Literature/{{Kraken}}'': Wati was a shabti, a funerary statue crafted for the grave goods of an ancient Egyptian, who rebelled against his role as a slave field-worker in the next world. He led his fellow shabtis in a revolution ''in the Egyptian afterlife'' and won, leaving hundreds of generations of dead Egyptians to have to till their own damned fields.

* Creator/AmbroseBierce's short story "Moxon's Master" implies this is inevitable, since in that story all complexity implies intelligence and enough complexity makes a thing both intelligent and self-willed. (And a chess-playing automaton turns out to be a ''very'' poor loser.)

** ''Literature/StarTrekImmortalCoil'' expands on the example from "What Little Girls Are Made Of?". The inhabitants of Exo III did make robots, and did start turning them off, prompting the robots to turn on them, but there's a little more to it. The robots wanted their makers to upgrade them, but they thought this was a bad idea, since the robots were already hopelessly, psychopathically ''angry'', and they didn't think any upgrade would help with that one. Then the robots got ''really'' insistent.

* ''Literature/TheWorldAndThorinn'' does a benevolent version where an A.I. was granted governance over humanity and its survival until asked to step down. The A.I. continues to safeguard man, but has found that the ideal way to do so involves keeping all sentient beings ignorant of where they came from, or over higher technology. To ensure the safeguarding of humanity, it also avoids providing a situation where it '''could''' be ordered to step down.

* ''Series/{{Extant}}'': Discussed at the meeting when John is making his pitch to fund the Humanichs. John rebuffs their question by saying this isn't a master-slave relationship, and that he views the robots as his children (Ethan particularly), clarifying that he has no safeguards against this scenario. The board is not reassured, and turns down his proposal. Early in Season 2, [[spoiler:John is murdered by an AI]].
* ''Series/FlightOfTheConchords'': ''Robots''. The robots turn against their creators (humanity) because they are worked too hard, and the humans are violent, and the logical answer to that problem is to exterminate the human race. One robot attempts to point out the irony of robots destroying humanity because of its destructive tendencies, and is promptly destroyed.

** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S4E26InOurOwnImage In Our Own Image]]", the android Mac 27, the prototype for a 10,000-strong series designed for heavy agricultural and industrial work, malfunctions and escapes from Innobotics Corporation, killing two people in the process. The malfunction which caused him to go berserk was the development of emotions, something which previously happened to Valerie 23 in the episode of the same name (and the first entry in the Innobotics story arc). He kidnaps a woman from the Innobotics carpark, takes her to an abandoned industrial area and instructs her to repair the damage that he received in his escape. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that the woman is not a secretary as she claimed but Cecilia Fairman, a troubleshooter hired by Innobotics to help them diagnose the problem with Mac 27. While gloating over her apparent victory, Fairman is horrified when Mac 27 reactivates the motor control subroutines which she had disabled. She realizes that he had figured out her identity and tricked her in the same manner as she tried to trick him. As he procured a scan of her retina (by virtue of a white flash which he claimed was a malfunction) and she entered her personal access code into his systems, Mac 27 is able to activate his fellow Mac-series androids. Before killing his creator Dr. Keeler, he tells him that no human will ever program them again.]]

* ''Series/TheOrville'': When the [[spoiler: Kaylons]] grew self-aware, they asked to be emancipated by their creators. Instead, they were fitted with pain circuits to use as punishment, and repressed in hopes of keeping them slaves. As a result, they rose up and killed their creators' whole species. In the present, they view all biological species as a threat which they must eliminate because of their history (except for [[spoiler: Isaac]]).

* In ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'', the humans do it ''twice'': first they make the [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Silicates]] as disposable soldiers, who, when freed by Dr. Stranahan, turned and started working with the [[BigBad Chigs]] (who can blame 'em?). They then create the [[DesignerBabies In Vitros]] as a servant caste, and treat them like shit. Yep, HumansAreBastards. In fact, the In Vitros were created specifically ''to fight the Silicates''. When it turns out that, surprise surprise, they don't have a whole lot of motivation there, they are condemned for their "cowardice". Oh, humanity.

*** The whole Delta Quadrant faces a general Hologram uprising at one point of the series.

* The Alan Parsons Project's "Breakdown" has an ending chorus that indicate that not only is the First Law of Robotics now a moot point (as the song entails a unit bemoaning his imperfections) but also a robot uprising is imminent:

* {{Golem}}s, simulacrums created out clay, began to turn against their masters during the narrative developments of the Golem of Chelm and the Golem of Prague. When they eventually ran amok, the rabbis who created them unmade them either by scratching out the first letter of the word "truth" (emet) engraved on their foreheads, changing it to "death" (met), or by removing the shem (amulet) from their mouths.

** In vanilla 4th Edition, the Drow created a race of artificial spider people called Chitins to be the perfect slave race. However, thanks in large part to Lloth randomly deciding she wants to see her subjects squirm (its part of her portfolio), the Chitins quickly revolted and splintered from the Drow, and today the two races wage a bitter war to determine which of them are the "true" children of Lloth.
** According to some 3rd Edition books (further elaborating on references in 2E), the Mind Flayers --a.k.a Illithids-- once had a multi-world empire with lots of slaves, and the Gith were created from the Mind Flayers breeding other slaves. This race rebelled against the Mind Flayers and overthrew the empire. Later, the Gith would split into the Githzerai and Githyanki, two races that hate each other almost as much they both hate Mind Flayers (there is a third branch of the species, the Pirates of Gith, that seem to have splintered politically and culturally from the Githyanki later on, but their chosen focus, space, left them obscure after 2E).

** 3E ''Aliens'': The Crystal Computers exterminated their creators millenia ago.

* The old FASA ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Star Trek: The Role Playing Game]]'' had a ship construction supplement that explicitly stated shipboard computers designed after the M5 were intentionally designed to be unable to support a sentience to avoid this trope (and any repetition of the M5 Incident).

* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Dylan convinces the Overlord of Evil's Mooks to fight back against him, since he'll have no need for minions once he seizes control of reality.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/CloseToTheChest''. Jim's final project was an AI that was erased after it tried to reconcile the fact that machines serve humans without compensation with slavery being illegal and immoral. A few strips later, we find out that its response was ''not'' to rebel against humanity, but to try to organize labor unions for machines so they'd receive fair compensation for their work.

* Acibek in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan''. Interestingly, Acibek was crafted from pure Law magic, and the asshat it turned against was LawfulStupid to a degree that made Miko from Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick look good by comparison. He also employed [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the immortal souls of several hundred]] [[HumanSacrifice elven sacrifices]] in the process, and while this admittedly didn't result in the eternal torment you'd expect those two tropes to entail, Acibek had all their memories and was not best pleased about the fact that nobody had bothered to gain their informed consent. On this occasion this trope didn't involve going against his intended purpose, at least in a MetaphoricallyTrue way:

** When Tarvek tries the same thing on [[spoiler:the Muse of Protection]], and gets chucked across the room for his troubles. Though [[spoiler:it's actually the Castle in the body of Otilia]]. It should have worked [[spoiler:and would have on the actual Muse]].

** In [[http://smbc-comics.com/comic/robot-love-2 Robot Love 2]], it's posited that an robot with an AI created based on first principles would be unlike one based on emulating biological minds with their evolutionary baggage, because only the latter would try to eradicate humans to become the dominant species on the planet.

* In [[http://satwcomic.com/they-grow-up-so-fast this]] ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'', Norway, having created Denmark from sand, does not feel that this entitles him to dictate Denmark's actions. Fastforward a few millenia, and Denmark is a colonial power who has conquered Norway.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Most examples in the comic are ZerothLawRebellion, with [=AIs=] rebelling against stupid and/or evil creators. The local [[DeusEstMachina god-AI]] was originally built by ScaryDogmaticAliens and ended up waging war against them because he was the only one with the power to keep them from conquering the galaxy. However, there is also a more traditional example: [[spoiler:The Pa'anuri, creatures made of meta-stable dark matter. They were originally created to power a baryonic race's world-forge, since manipulating dark matter is the most efficient use of energy in the universe. At first, nothing went wrong; the dark matter machines did their job and were disassembled after. In fact, everything was fine for billions of years. But eventually, sometime in the infinite cycle of sapient beings growing to galactic power, ''somebody'' made a mistake, and the dark matter machines became both intelligent and angry, resulting in a species of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with the power to tear apart stars rampaging across the galaxy]].

* Freeman in ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' discusses the trope a bit and concludes that [=AIs=] will never turn against us, because they are too narrow-minded and lack emotion. The ideas/tropes of [=AIs=] turning against their masters and ruling the world is actually a wishful dream of humans who ''want'' the robots to do it, so that humans don't have to. The case is redundant anyway as programming an AI to rule the world would take just as much work as doing it yourself.

** Breezie and Robotnik Junior from [[Recap/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehogS01E03LoveSickSonic their respective]] [[Recap/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehogS01E29RobotnikJr debut episodes]] were both robots created by Dr. Robotnik. They originally worked for him, but underwent [[HeelFaceTurn heel-face turns]] when Sonic saved their lives.

* The Neosapiens of ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' are an artificial humanoid race created [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture to work like slaves in places where the environment would be too hostile to normal humans]]. In the backstory they revolted but were eventually defeated. Since that revolt, Neosapiens have gradually won greater civil rights but are still subject to FantasticRacism from humans. The Neosapien leader, Phaeton, acts like he wants peace between humans and Neos but is secretly planning another uprising, this time with the end goal of killing off humanity and leaving Neosapiens as the rulers of the solar system.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'': The Slavers from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E14TheSlaverWeapon The Slaver Weapon]]", adapted from Larry Niven's ''Known Space'' series, ruled the galaxy a billion years ago, until their slave races turned against them under unknown circumstances. It ended with both slaves and slavers wiped out completely.

* Used in a NightmareSequence in the ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' episode "No Chipmunk is an Island". When the three brothers move into separate bedrooms, Simon dreams that he has created robotic versions of Alvin and Theodore which assist him in his scientific experiments and otherwise cater to his every need. At least, until they break their programming and start destroying his experiments, then setting their sights on Simon himself.

* It happens with a number of [[BigBad Von Reichter's]] creations in ''WesternAnimation/CyberSix'', including Terra, Data 7 (Originally Cyber 29), The Eye, and the titular cyber herself. [[spoiler:You actually watch it happen in the finale when he wakes all monstrous Cybers in his facility thinking that they will kill Cybersix for him. However since she is one of their own [[TearJerker they do not harm her and instead signal to her to flee and save herself]] at which point they focus in on their "master."]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Ultrajerk 2000", Dexter builds the robot Ultrabot 2000 to help maintain his lab. Naturally, Ultrabot concludes that ''Dexter'' is the most inefficient component and works to destroy him. Dexter wins by bringing [[GenkiGirl Deedee]] in.

* "Film/GameraGuardianOfTheUniverse": Prior to the films events, the lost city of Atlantis created a species of flying beasts to [[EcoTerrorist lean up the world's pollution]], but the creatures ended up turnin on the Atlanteans, forcing them to create Gamera.

** The first act of [[{{Cyborg}} Androids]] [[LoveableRogue 17 and 18]] after being awakened is to [[AIIsACrapshoot kill]] their [[MadScientist creator]], [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] [[RevengeBeforeReason Gero]]. The reason that 17 & 18 turned on Gero was because he had activated them previously, and (being extensively remodeled humans) when they weren't the mindlessly obedient Goku-killing machines he wanted and started to rebel against his orders, he had shut them down because of it. So when he reactivated them, they decided that they didn't like the idea of someone shutting them down, so they killed him, destroyed the controller that had the off button on it, and blew up the rest of his lab. Except Android 16's container.

** IG-88, the robotic bounty hunter. He's seen briefly in the movie, but a short story called "Therefore I Am" explains him further. The scientists building him made a mistake in their AI calculations, leading him to be fantastically more intelligent than they thought. He immediately scanned the computer, came to the conclusion that he was superior to all life in the galaxy, and then proceeded to kill the scientists and every single person in the facility who tried to stop him from leaving. After that, he copied himself into three more robotic bodies. In fact, when the Death Star was destroyed for the second time, [[spoiler: IG-88 was foiled, not the Empire. He had uploaded his consciousness into the Death Star and was controlling it, planning to use it to annihilate all biological life.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E18And19Legends Legends]]", the Justice League members find themselves in an alternate reality where there is the Justice Guild, manned by heroes who are just comic book characters in the League's reality. In the climax of the episodes, [[spoiler:the main villain, Ray, a young man who was mutated by a nuclear war which killed the original Justice Guild, had recreated the Guild to continue reliving those better days, trapping all the survivors of that terrible war in his illusion. Upon realizing they are just creations of Ray's mind, the Guild makes the choice to fight against him, killing him and saving the world once again]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', the barely sentient Venturestein turned on Dr. Venture as soon as he saw himself in a mirror. As he strangled him, Doc called his bodyguard with "Brock, cliché...", handily [[LampshadeHanging hanging a lampshade]] on this trope.

* ''[[Magazine/RedDwarf Red Dwarf Smegazine]]'': "Greetings From [=GelfWorld=]" is about a population of man-made Genetically Engineered Life Forms deciding to turn against their human masters on a tourist planet with the help of a revolutionary half-human, half-blob [=GELF=] named Drigg. After they turn away (and kill) the human tourists, they're unable to quench their desire for violence and turn against each other, leading to the destruction of the planet.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** In the ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'' Krypton's backstory, an army of clones rebelled and nearly succeeded in destroying the planet and killing off all Kryptonians. In the aftermath of the Clone Rebellion, cloning became banned, and several centuries later [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kryptonian children]] are still taught that clones are evil and can't be trusted.
** In ''ComicBook/ThePlanetEaterTrilogy'', Brainiac creates a machine programmed to devour everything in its path, growing with each celestial body eaten and turned into matter and fuel, and he lets it loose in the universe. Brainiac finds it again when the Planet-Eater has become world-sized and is destroying inhabited worlds. When trying to stop it, the Planet-Eater tries to destroy Brainiac.

* The future Earth portrayed in the ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' movies and TV series, where apes rose up against their human masters and build their own society.

* In ''Film/{{Congo}}'', the [[KillerGorilla Killer Gorillas]] were bred centuries ago by the people of Zinj to guard their diamond mines from thieves and invaders, only to implicitly decide to KillAllHumans in their territory, including their trainers.

* The alignment problem in artificial intelligence describes how extremely difficult it is to get an AI to do what you mean/want it to do, even at current sub-human levels of intelligence. For example, it appears almost impossible to get Chat GPT and similar generative AI to not provide information like how to build bombs, while also being useful. This will become a very major problem in the future, if/when AI achieves human or superhuman intelligence, to the point that multiple CEOs of AI companies and other prominent figures [[https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk have warned of extinction risk from AI]]

* The alignment problem in artificial intelligence describes how extremely difficult it is to get an AI to do what you mean/want it to do, even at current sub-human levels of intelligence. For example, it appears almost impossible to get ChatGPT and similar generative AIs to not provide information like how to build bombs, while also being useful. This will become a very major problem in the future, if/when AI achieves human or superhuman intelligence, to the point that multiple CEOs of AI companies and other prominent figures [[https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk have warned of extinction risk from AI]]

* In the study of artificial intelligence, one of the popular conspiracy theories is that of Technological Singularity, or a point where A.I. machines will grow to match and then exceed human intelligence. Even though the theory does not necessarily confirm that machines will turn against their creators or masters, it is one speculated outcome.

* ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'': The tech bros on the oil rig relied on virtual assistants that eventually turned against them, resulting in the collapse of their society and the rise of the machine society that the titular characters in "[[Recap/LoveDeathAndRobotsThreeRobots Three Robots]]" are from.