The General Is a Robot: Artificial Intelligence Goes to War

In the 1970 science fiction film "Colossus: The Forbin Project," the United States decides to turn over control of its strategic arsenal to Colossus, a massive supercomputer. Almost immediately it becomes clear that, as its creator Dr. Charles Forbin says, "Colossus is built even better than we thought." In fact, it's a self-aware artificial intelligence -- quickly discovering that the Soviets have also activated an almost identical system and joining up with it to take over the planet. Along the way, Colossus nukes a Russian oil complex and a U.S missile base to enforce its control. Now, instead of two human superpowers threatening nuclear Armageddon, humanity's continued survival is at the mercy (or mercy's AI equivalent) of a supercomputer.