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Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese
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One of the misunderstood plot points in 2001 is HAL did not just take over and try to eliminate the humans for no reason. He had deep planted instructions to get the ship to the monolith orbiting Jupiter at any and all costs. The human programmers essentially told HAL that if the humans get in the way of the mission they are expendable. It is explained in 2010 A Space Odyssey and in the book of the same name.
Arthur C. Clarke based the move 34 year in the future, and here we are 20 years after 2001 and we still are far from a conscious intelligent self aware computer, or sending humans to Jupiter.