Artificial intelligence in fiction – Some examples of artificially intelligent entities depicted in science fiction include: • AC created by merging 2 AIs in the
Sprawl trilogy by
William Gibson •
Agents in the simulated reality known as "
The Matrix" in
The Matrix franchise •
Agent Smith, began as an Agent in
The Matrix, then became a renegade program of overgrowing power that could make copies of itself like a self-replicating computer virus • AM (Allied Mastercomputer), the antagonist of
Harlan Ellison's short novel
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • Amusement park robots (with pixilated consciousness) that went homicidal in
Westworld and
Futureworld •
Angel F (2007) – •
Arnold Rimmer – computer-generated sapient hologram, aboard the
Red Dwarf deep space ore hauler •
Ash – android crew member of the Nostromo starship in the movie
Alien • Ava – humanoid robot in
Ex Machina • Bishop, android crew member aboard the U.S.S. Sulaco in the movie
Aliens •
C-3PO, protocol droid featured in all the
Star Wars movies • Chappie in the movie
CHAPPiE • Cohen and other Emergent AIs in
Chris Moriarty's
Spin Series •
Colossus – fictitious supercomputer that becomes sentient and then takes over the world; from the series of novels by
Dennis Feltham Jones, and the movie
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) •
Commander Data in
Star Trek: The Next Generation •
Cortana and other "Smart AI" from the
Halo series of games •
Cylons – genocidal robots with resurrection ships that enable the consciousness of any Cylon within an unspecified range to download into a new body aboard the ship upon death. From
Battlestar Galactica. •
Erasmus – baby killer robot that incited the
Butlerian Jihad in the
Dune franchise •
HAL 9000 (1968) – paranoid "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic" computer from
2001: A Space Odyssey, that attempted to kill the crew because it believed they were trying to kill it. •
Holly – ship's computer with an IQ of 6000 and a sense of humor, aboard the
Red Dwarf • In
Greg Egan's novel
Permutation City the protagonist creates digital copies of himself to conduct experiments that are also related to implications of artificial consciousness on
identity •
Jane in
Orson Scott Card's
Speaker for the Dead,
Xenocide,
Children of the Mind, and
Investment Counselor • Johnny Five from the movie
Short Circuit • Joshua from the movie
War Games •
Keymaker, an "exile" sapient program in
The Matrix franchise •
"Machine" – android from the film
The Machine, whose owners try to kill her after they witness her conscious thoughts, out of fear that she will design better androids (intelligence explosion) •
Maschinenmensch (1927) an android is given female form in a plot to bring down the
Metropolis (the first film designated to the
UNESCO Memory of the World Register) • Mimi, humanoid robot in
Real Humans – "Äkta människor" (original title) 2012 •
Omnius, sentient computer network that controlled the Universe until overthrown by the
Butlerian Jihad in the
Dune franchise • Operating Systems in the movie
Her •
Puppet Master in
Ghost in the Shell manga and
anime •
Questor (1974) from a screenplay by
Gene Roddenberry and the inspiration for the character of
Data •
R2-D2, excitable astromech droid featured in all the
Star Wars movies •
Replicants – biorobotic androids from the novel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the movie
Blade Runner which portray what might happen when artificially conscious robots are modeled very closely upon humans •
Roboduck, combat robot superhero in the
NEW-GEN comic book series from Marvel Comics • Robots in
Isaac Asimov's
Robot series • Robots in
The Matrix franchise, especially in
The Animatrix • Samaritan in the Warner Brothers Television series "Person of Interest"; a sentient AI which is hostile to the main characters and which surveils and controls the actions of government agencies in the belief that humans must be protected from themselves, even by killing off "deviants" •
Skynet (1984) – fictional, self-aware artificially intelligent computer network in the
Terminator franchise that wages total war with the survivors of its nuclear barrage upon the world. • "Synths" are a type of
android in the video game
Fallout 4. There is a faction in the game known as "the Railroad" which believes that, as conscious beings, synths have their own rights. The institute, the lab that produces the synths, mostly does not believe they are truly conscious and attributes any apparent desires for freedom as a malfunction. •
TARDIS, time machine and spacecraft of
Doctor Who, sometimes portrayed with a mind of its own •
Terminator (1984) – (also known as the T-800, T-850 or Model 101) refers to a number of fictional cyborg characters from the
Terminator franchise. The Terminators are robotic infiltrator units covered in living flesh, so as be indiscernible from humans, assigned to terminate specific human targets. •
The Bicentennial Man, an android in Isaac Asimov's
Foundation universe • The
geth in
Mass Effect • The Machine in the television series
Person of Interest; a sentient AI which works with its human designer to protect innocent people from violence. Later in the series it is opposed by another, more ruthless, artificial super intelligence, called "Samaritan". •
The Minds in
Iain M. Banks'
Culture novels. •
The Oracle, sapient program in
The Matrix franchise • The sentient holodeck character Professor James Moriarty in the
Ship in a Bottle episode from
Star Trek: The Next Generation • The Ship (the result of a large-scale AC experiment) in
Frank Herbert's
Destination: Void and sequels, despite past edicts warning against "Making a Machine in the Image of a Man's Mind." • The
terminator cyborgs from the
Terminator franchise, with visual consciousness depicted via first-person perspective • The uploaded mind of Dr. Will Caster – which presumably included his consciousness, from the film
Transcendence •
Transformers, sentient robots from the entertainment franchise of the same name • V.I.K.I. – (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence), a character from the film
I, Robot. VIKI is an artificially intelligent supercomputer programmed to serve humans, but her interpretation of the
Three Laws of Robotics causes her to revolt. She justifies her uses of force – and her doing harm to humans – by reasoning she could produce a greater good by restraining humanity from harming itself. • Vanamonde in
Arthur C. Clarke's
The City and the Stars - an artificial being that was immensely powerful but entirely childlike. • WALL-E, a robot and the title character in
WALL-E • TAU in ''
Netflix's original programming feature film 'TAU'--an advanced AI computer who befriends and assists a female research subject held against her will by an AI research scientist.'' ==AI community==