You've missed my point. HAL would not have looked at Frank and Dave as potential threats to the mission unless it had some idea what the mission's goals were s

You've missed my point. HAL would not have looked at Frank and Dave as potential threats to the mission unless it had some idea what the mission's goals were so that it could evaluate their actions against that; and it wouldn't have taken action to protect the mission (and itself) unless programmed to do so. > human bias towards the meatbags Interesting phrase. Do you really think people and machines have the same value?