What Do Killer Robots Dream Of?

The cinematic depictions are pretty clear. From I, Robot to The Terminator series to The Matrix, humans, either wittingly or unwittingly, manage to clash with the machinery that had previously served them. It's a narrative that, like some of our best mythos, puts us at the center of the action and more often than not shows the supremacy of human ingenuity under pressure. Because it's Hollywood, and Hollywood specializes in fictions. Well, at least part of it is a fiction.