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AI on Screen: Good vs. Evil Portrayals

This list is organized by release date, from the earliest to the most recent.
It splits the movies into two groups: those that paint a hopeful and human-centric picture of artificial intelligence, and those that serve as a warning, showing a darker, more dystopian future where AI is concerned.

Metropolis
★★★★½

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Maria's robot double
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Master of the World

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Überroboter / Kampfmaschine (i.e. fighting machine), working-robots
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Loss of Feeling

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Universal robots / Micron (prototype)
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

The Invisible Boy

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Robby the Robot
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

The Creation of the Humanoids

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Humanoids & Human-Humanoids
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Alphaville
★★★★★

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Alpha 60
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

2001: A Space Odyssey
★★★★★

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: HAL 9000
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Paper Man

📍 Neutral 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Henry Norman
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Silent Running

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Huey, Dewey and Louie
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Westworld

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Westworld Park's Androids
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

The Questor Tapes

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Questor
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Dark Star

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Ship Computer, Bomb #20
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Zardoz

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Tabernacle
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

The Stepford Wives

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Robots as an alternative to wives
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Logan's Run

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: City Computer, Box
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Demon Seed

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: City Computer, Box
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Star Wars
★★★★★

📍 Good 🪽
📍Artificial intelligence Name: R2-D2, C-3PO
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Alien
★★★★★

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Mother (computer), Ash (android)
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Saturn 3

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Hector
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Blade Runner
★★★★

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Replicants
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Tron
★★★★

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Master Control Program
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Superman III

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Supercomputer
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

WarGames
★★★½

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), Joshua
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Electric Dreams

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Edgar
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Hide and Seek

📍 Neutral 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: P-1
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

The Terminator
★★★★½

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Skynet, the Terminator
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

D.A.R.Y.L.

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Daryl
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Annihilator

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: AI robots
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Flight of the Navigator

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Spaceship
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Short Circuit

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Number 5, Johnny Five
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Deadly Friend

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: BB, Samantha Pringle
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

RoboCop
★★★★½

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: RoboCop, Murphy
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Short Circuit 2

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Number 5, Johnny Five
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Class of 1999

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: AI robots
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

RoboCop 2

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: RoboCop, Murphy, RoboCop 2
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Skynet, the Terminator, T-1000, T-800
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Homewrecker

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Lucy
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

RoboCop 3

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: RoboCop, Murphy
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Star Trek: Generations

📍 Neutral 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Data
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Blankman

📍 Neutral 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: J-5
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Ghost in the Shell
★★★★

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: The Puppet Master
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Screamers

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: David Screamer / Jessica Hansen Screamer
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Virtuosity
★★★

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: SID 6.7
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Star Trek: First

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Data, The Borg
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖 & Alien 👽

Nirvana

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Solo
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Lost in Space

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Robot
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

The Iron Giant

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: The iron giant
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

The Matrix
★★★★

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Agents, Sentinels
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Bicentennial Man

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Andrew Martin
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

The Time Machine
★★★

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Vox 114
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Resident Evil

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Red Queen
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

S1m0ne

📍 Neutral 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Simone
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Minority Report
★★★½

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: cyber parlor rooms
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

The Matrix Reloaded

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Agents, Sentinels
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

The Matrix Revolutions

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Agents, Sentinels
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

I, Robot
★★½

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: VIKI (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence), Sonny
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

📍 Neutral 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Marvin the Paranoid Android, Deep Thought, Eddie the Computer
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Stealth

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: EDI
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Meet the Robinsons
★★★½

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: DOR-15 and Carl
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Eagle Eye
★½

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst (ARIIA)
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Iron Man
★★★★

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: J.A.R.V.I.S. (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System)
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

WALL·E

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: WALL-E, EVE, AUTO, Ship's Computer
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Terminator Salvation

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Skynet, the Terminator
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Echelon Conspiracy

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Echelon, an omniscient communication surveillance computer system
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Moon
★★★★

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: GERTY
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Iron Man 2
★★★

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: J.A.R.V.I.S.
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Enthiran

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Chitti
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

TRON: Legacy

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: CLU & ISOs
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

EVA

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Eva, Max, SI-9
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Real Steel

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Atom
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Ra.One

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Ra.One, G.One
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

The Avengers
★★★½

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: J.A.R.V.I.S.
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Prometheus
★★★

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: David
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Robot & Frank

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Robot
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Total Recall

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Soldier Robots
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Her
★★★★

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Samantha
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Iron Man 3
★★½

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: J.A.R.V.I.S., Iron Legion.
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

The Machine

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Machine
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Pacific Rim

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: A.I., Jaegers.
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠 & Robot/android 🤖

Elysium
★½

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Elysium robots
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Oblivion

📍 Evil 😈
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Tet
📍 Type: Computer/program 🧠

Automata

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Robots
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Big Hero 6
★★★★

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: Baymax
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

Interstellar
★★★★★

📍 Good 🪽
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: TARS and CASE
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖

RoboCop

📍 Mixed 🌓
📍 Artificial intelligence Name: RoboCop, Murphy
📍 Type: Robot/android 🤖