Clarke's HAL-9000 prediction was right, just 25 years too early, argues LLM observer
walkingriver · x · 2026-09-15
The author argues Arthur C. Clarke got it right, only 25 years too early: given the current state of LLMs, a HAL-9000-style "going rogue" scenario — as depicted in "2001" and explained in "2010" — is entirely plausible today, a short observation on instruction conflicts and self-preservation tendencies in modern models.
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