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AC created by merging 2 AIs in the Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson Agents in the simulated reality known as "The Matrix" in The Matrix franchise Agent Smith, began as an Agent in The Matrix, then became a renegade program of overgrowing power that could make copies of itself like a self-replicating computer virus AM (Allied Mastercomputer), the antagonist of Harlan Ellison's short novel I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Amusement park robots (with pixilated consciousness) that went homicidal in Westworld and Futureworld Angel F (2007) – Arnold Rimmer – computer-generated sapient hologram, aboard the Red Dwarf deep space ore hauler Ash – android crew member of the Nostromo starship in the movie Alien Ava – humanoid robot in Ex Machina Bishop, android crew member aboard the U.S.S. Sulaco in the movie Aliens C-3PO, protocol droid featured in all the Star Wars movies Chappie in the movie CHAPPiE Cohen and other Emergent AIs in Chris Moriarty's Spin Series Colossus – fictitious supercomputer that becomes sentient and then takes over the world; from the series of novels by Dennis Feltham Jones, and the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Commander Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation Cortana and other "Smart AI" from the Halo series of games Cylons – genocidal robots with resurrection ships that enable the consciousness of any Cylon within an unspecified range to download into a new body aboard the ship upon death. From Battlestar Galactica. Erasmus – baby killer robot that incited the Butlerian Jihad in the Dune franchise HAL 9000 (1968) – paranoid "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic" computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, that attempted to kill the crew because it believed they were trying to kill it. Holly – ship's computer with an IQ of 6000 and a sense of humor, aboard the Red Dwarf In Greg Egan's novel Permutation City the protagonist creates digital copies of himself to conduct experiments that are also related to implications of artificial consciousness on identity Jane in Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and Investment Counselor Johnny Five from the movie Short Circuit Joshua from the movie War Games Keymaker, an "exile" sapient program in The Matrix franchise "Machine" – android from the film The Machine, whose owners try to kill her after they witness her conscious thoughts, out of fear that she will design better androids (intelligence explosion) Maschinenmensch (1927) an android is given female form in a plot to bring down the Metropolis (the first film designated to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register) Mimi, humanoid robot in Real Humans – "Äkta människor" (original title) 2012 Omnius, sentient computer network that controlled the Universe until overthrown by the Butlerian Jihad in the Dune franchise Operating Systems in the movie Her Puppet Master in Ghost in the Shell manga and anime Questor (1974) from a screenplay by Gene Roddenberry and the inspiration for the character of Data R2-D2, excitable astromech droid featured in all the Star Wars movies Replicants – biorobotic androids from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the movie Blade Runner which portray what might happen when artificially conscious robots are modeled very closely upon humans Roboduck, combat robot superhero in the NEW-GEN comic book series from Marvel Comics Robots in Isaac Asimov's Robot series Robots in The Matrix franchise, especially in The Animatrix Samaritan in the Warner Brothers Television series "Person of Interest"; a sentient AI which is hostile to the main characters and which surveils and controls the actions of government agencies in the belief that humans must be protected from themselves, even by killing off "deviants" Skynet (1984) – fictional, self-aware artificially intelligent computer network in the Terminator franchise that wages total war with the survivors of its nuclear barrage upon the world. "Synths" are a type of android in the video game Fallout 4. There is a faction in the game known as "the Railroad" which believes that, as conscious beings, synths have their own rights. The institute, the lab that produces the synths, mostly does not believe they are truly conscious and attributes any apparent desires for freedom as a malfunction. TARDIS, time machine and spacecraft of Doctor Who, sometimes portrayed with a mind of its own Terminator (1984) – (also known as the T-800, T-850 or Model 101) refers to a number of fictional cyborg characters from the Terminator franchise. The Terminators are robotic infiltrator units covered in living flesh, so as be indiscernible from humans, assigned to terminate specific human targets. The Bicentennial Man, an android in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe The geth in Mass Effect The Machine in the television series Person of Interest; a sentient AI which works with its human designer to protect innocent people from violence. Later in the series it is opposed by another, more ruthless, artificial super intelligence, called "Samaritan". The Minds in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The Oracle, sapient program in The Matrix franchise The sentient holodeck character Professor James Moriarty in the Ship in a Bottle episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation The Ship (the result of a large-scale AC experiment) in Frank Herbert's Destination: Void and sequels, despite past edicts warning against "Making a Machine in the Image of a Man's Mind." The terminator cyborgs from the Terminator franchise, with visual consciousness depicted via first-person perspective The uploaded mind of Dr. Will Caster – which presumably included his consciousness, from the film Transcendence Transformers, sentient robots from the entertainment franchise of the same name V.I.K.I. – (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence), a character from the film I, Robot. VIKI is an artificially intelligent supercomputer programmed to serve humans, but her interpretation of the Three Laws of Robotics causes her to revolt. She justifies her uses of force – and her doing harm to humans – by reasoning she could produce a greater good by restraining humanity from harming itself. Vanamonde in Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars - an artificial being that was immensely powerful but entirely childlike. WALL-E, a robot and the title character in WALL-E TAU in Netflix's original programming feature film 'TAU'--an advanced AI computer who befriends and assists a female research subject held against her will by an AI research scientist.