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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/letsgopablo on 2024-11-04 04:09:25+00:00.

The evil AI trope is, I think, overused in movies to the point where it is almost its own subgenre. The initially benevolent artificial intelligence turns evil and the last act is man vs cold unfeeling machine? boring, cliche, played out.

I just saw Duncan Jones’ movie Moon, and I fully expected the AI in it to do what so many lesser sci-fi movies do and go full HAL 9000 on Sam Rockwell - and considering the AI was voiced by Kevin fucking Spacey I wouldn’t have been surprised. But the movie’s robot companion remains a faithful and loyal servant throughout, and even ends up saving the protagonist in the end. It’s very touching and I think means something, because in the end none of the human characters really cared for Sam - his bosses don’t care about him because he’s a disposable clone, his wife isn’t even really his wife, even his original self sold out to the company and allowed his clones to be worked and killed off. In the end, it is a cold, unfeeling machine that is his only aide.

For a movie that is about man’s ability to use technology to serve himself regardless of the moral implications, it’s interesting that the robot acts the most “human”.