It just popped into my mind that there was a movie called
Colossus: The Forbin Project dealing with an AI taking over mankind. I looked up the film; it was released in 1970 (47 years ago!):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloss...Forbin_Project
The plot line deals with a Cold War situation where both the US and the USSR have massive computer systems controlling the nuclear defense system of each respective country; the USSR computer is named
Guardian and the US counterpart is named
Colossus. In a move towards detente, the two countries agree to link up the two systems in order to attempt to prevent any nuclear misunderstanding, sort of the tech version of the Red Phones. When the two systems link up, they immediately join up, with
Colossus being the leader, and decide they are far more capable than humans to make decisions and wrest control of all nuclear armaments from human control, doing so, of course, 'for the good of man'. The AI is more than a bit Draconian in the application of its will and, with cold ruthless logic, sets out to 'cure' the world of its shortcomings, even to the point of mass murder; to the AI, the ends justifies the means.
Colossus makes its creator, Dr. Charles Forbin, its 'interface' with mankind, a role he does not at all wish to assume, but the AI won't accept anyone else. Forbin's life becomes fully controlled by
Colossus, under constant 24 hour surveillance. Here is the ending of the film:
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