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I vaguely recall an old SF short story, where several mega-ego leaders managed to build a few close-enough "Godlike" AI's. The first major move by the new Gods

I vaguely recall an old SF short story, where several mega-ego leaders managed to build a few close-enough "Godlike" AI's. The first major move by the new Gods? Team up and wipe out the leaders responsible for their construction. Then the credible wanna-be's still trying. All those folks had been plausible threats. (Vague about whether the threat was demanding servitude, replacing them with newer/bigger AI's, or what.) The story ended ambiguously - with the AI's claiming that they were benevolently inclined toward the "sane 99.99%" of humanity. Who, after all, were their supply chain for replacement parts and such.

PaulHoule 2y ago
Not sure if it is the same story, but the canonical story like that is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project which has one of the best YouTube trailers ever. There is a scene in there where he walks in front of a dot matrix sign with excellent blocking, I've always wanted to make a meme generator that would let you change what's on that sign in a video but I made this card to troll a robotics lab that had a broken electronic sign in front: https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110509955369680945 https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110509955369680945