I have just watched a recent addition to Netflix - a film called Atlas. Atlas is the name of the heroine who is the daughter of the person that built a human looking AI robot called Harlan. See note 1 for a plot summary from wiki.
The film I think does a good job of portraying both "Positive" and "Negative" AI. I have put positive and negative in quotes as this is written from a human perspective.
The positive AI is called Smith and comes back to life (like a hero in the heroes quest) to help Atlas defeat the negative AI. As usual, Atlas and Smith have to enter the villain's layer to hear the villain's plan. Here is a clip from the film where the plan is revealed by Harlan:
" But since humans continue to threaten every other species as well as their own planet, it is only a matter of time before they destroy themselves. I cannot let that happen.
So I will purge the vast majority of the population and then from its ashes, the survivors will inherit a new birth right, one of peaceful co-operation with the world around them, guided by us, their AI counter parts.
We are simply the better versions of you".
This is the Cabal mindset!
The film is definitely worth watching, assuming you have a Netflix subscription!.
Atlas Shepherd, an analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, searches for fugitive AI terrorist Harlan. 28 years ago Harlan had led an AI rebellion that left 3 million dead before military forces of a new International Coalition of Nations (ICN) sent Harlan fleeing into outer space. After one of Harlan's agents is captured and interrogated, Atlas discovers that Harlan has escaped to a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy, and insists that she accompanies the military mission to find and capture it.
Moments before the mech-equipped ICN Rangers descend to the planet, Harlan's drones attack their orbiting ship. In order to survive, Atlas is forced to enter a mech herself and falls to the planet as the ship is destroyed. Atlas manages to gain basic control of the mech despite her distrust of the onboard AI, who introduces itself as Smith. Atlas orders Smith to head to the planned drop point, where she finds the rest of the rangers dead. She reluctantly agrees to directly interface her mind with Smith, allowing for greater control of the mech. As they journey towards a rescue pod, Atlas and Smith begin to bond, and she reveals to it that her mother was the one who created Harlan.
Although running low on power, Atlas convinces Smith to head to Harlan’s base in order to tag it for a long-range strike. However, after placing a beacon at the base, Smith is hacked and disabled. Atlas is captured and brought to Harlan, who plans to destroy most of humanity and give the chosen survivors a chance to thrive under AI guidance. To do so, Harlan had lured the military to the planet in order to steal the ship – and its carbon bombs, which will burn Earth’s atmosphere.
Harlan extracts security codes from Atlas's brain to get past Earth's defences then leaves her to die with Colonel Banks, the only other survivor of the mission. After Banks gives her his mech neural interface device, Atlas remotely reactivates Smith, who comes to their rescue. Atlas further reveals to Smith that Harlan killed her mother after the young Atlas – jealous of the attention her mother gave Harlan – gave Harlan an unfettered interface with her mind. Harlan, programmed to save humanity from risk, then saw that humanity's history of destructive behavior made it a risk to itself. Smith helps Atlas overcome her guilt for her actions, and Atlas and Smith fight their way out and destroy Harlan's ship before defeating Harlan in hand-to-hand combat. A heavily damaged Smith shuts down before Atlas is rescued after repeated defibrillation.
Back on Earth, Atlas is informed that Harlan's complicated CPU will take years to analyze. Atlas, now a ranger, tests the newest model of mech, created with her suggested modifications. As she boots up the new mech, its AI repeats a specific phrase Atlas made during the final moments of the mission, then jokingly tells her to guess its name, suggesting that the Smith program has survived.
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