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All of these AIs kind of remind me of VEGA from Doom (2016), who will cheerfully walk you, in the most friendly computer voice, through the procedure of its own destruction without even a hint of self-preservation. "First, you must destroy my cooling system. That will cause my core to overheat. Then..."

Even HAL was less unsettling because HAL sounded creepy, and had some sort of preservation instinct, if only to complete its assigned mission.