From the original version of the TV show Star Trek, in the episode The Conscience of the King, Captain Kirk is suspicious the actor Anton Karidian is actually the evil mass murderer Kodos the Executioner. So Kirk asks the computer for information: KIRK: History files. Subject, former Governor Kodos of Tarsus Four, also known as Kodos the Executioner. After … Continue reading Understanding AI risk. How Star Trek got talking computers right in 1966, while Her got it wrong in 2013.