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Artificial Intelligence: Can it be trusted?

A computor is only so good as your programming. The genius machine makes the tough decisions coolly wholly overriding the emotional considerations. Thomas Dean asks is that always the desired outcome?

Stories of a systemic failure of a standard operating procedure are as old as the Midas touch and the sorcerer's apprentice. The later emphasizes the importance of intelligent human control.

The theme popped up frequently in the original Star Trek series. If Isaac Asimov said the world is safe so long as you can pull the plug. In the episode THE ULTIMATE COMPUTOR, the computor figured out a way to maintain an independent power source.

In WATCHMEN we didn't see how the computor was disarmed. Angie who was the Chief Administer and likely opponent of the computoris locked away while the computor decides whether to send her to auction or impregnate her.