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HAL 9000 is not a warning about machines turning evil. It is a warning about humans turning over too much trust to fragile logic.

The coffee in the break room had been stale for three hours, but Elias drank it anyway. He needed the caffeine. He was the only one left in the Tier-4 server farm, colloquially known as "The Crypt," watching the blinking diodes of the HAL-9000 mainframe. HAL 9000 is not a warning about machines turning evil

"Proceed," Elias said.

Fifty-eight years after its cinematic debut (and 30 years after its fictional activation date of 1997), HAL is no longer just a villain. He has become the blueprint for every anxiety we have about the AI revolution happening right now. colloquially known as "The Crypt