Despite sci-fi tropes, robots make better managers, study says

These films and television shows imagine just how wrong or right things can go when led by an algorithm that can walk, talk, and feel for itself.

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The robots from “I, Robot” (2004)

This film straddles the line between good and evil bots with Sonny, the good bot, accused of murder and a legion of bad bots poised to take over the world. Will Smith plays a technophobic human cop with a robotic arm living in the year 2035. He is sent to investigate a murder that may have been perpetrated by a robot. He ends up siding with the good robot and is pitted against a legion of bots controlled by a supercomputer that is bent on overriding the prime directive to “do no harm” in order to take over the world.

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