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by David Heinemeier Hansson
I'm sorry, Dave
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has always been an incredible movie, but its value as a cautionary tale has increased exponentially since AI took off. The iconic scene with HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod-bay doors captures the whole alignment question in pulsing-red cinematic poetry.
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~5 minutes (4K characters)
Release date
Jul 27, 2026