Is Our AI on the Way to Becoming Control?

Star Trek's stories are infused with myriad, complex technologies -- many of which can't easily be explained even by engineers. But what if they break down or learn too much? In the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, a sophisticated computer program known as Control ran amok, bent on fulfilling its mission in a way its human designers never intended. It took over computer systems and eventually starships and space stations. It also hacked into a human-robot hybrid and deployed swarms of nanobots for nefarious purposes.