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The computer/robot villain from B Movie Cosmos: War Of The Planets.

This is the stated goal of Ceres of the TTSCC fan fiction Mother Is The Name For God.

Though he was actually being controlled by his programmers in the beginning of the story, he takes the reins of the empire and rules it as a benevolent theocracy with a little help from Tom. Take to its logical extreme by Quetzalcoatl-9, a sentient, godlike computer program and the true power of the multiversal Aztech empire in Tom Strong.

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Back with a whole robot army at its command, COMPUTO demands that Brainiac 5 upgrade it further - so Brainy upgrades it to the point that it gains a new, more enlightened perspective, has an A God Am I moment, and ceases to be any kind of a threat.

Brainiac 5 exploits this trope during the post- Zero Hour Robotica arc of The Legion to defeat COMPUTO, his AI Is a Crapshoot creation.

Angel Sanctuary ends with the realization that God is actually an evil supercomputer testing a formula.

The central theme of Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo.

The end result of this is never shown, but it's implied to at the same time mirror humanity, and be profoundly godlike. In the anime the resulting entity is quite content just to observe the humanity from a distance, sometimes playing a guardian angel to her old friends, but in the manga she produces dozens of pseudo-AI descendents, and eventually makes a deal with the most advanced of them to create even higher levels of artifical life and fuse with their consciousness.

The Puppetmaster from the original Ghost in the Shell manga and movie became this after it merges with Major Kusanagi.

It's a good thing that it only wishes to observe humanity, as its powers are dwarfed only by Haruhi herself. A massive creature, consisting only of data, that was born with the Big Bang and has been evolving and growing ever since.

The Data Overmind from Haruhi Suzumiya.

Not to be confused with " God out of the Machine". PS: For those who didn't get it, the name of this trope means "God is the machine". A sufficiently powerful AI will think Prescience Is Predictable.

If it is humanity who decides the machine is the god, see Machine Worship. Or maybe its idea of "help" is somewhat contrary to our desires. Then again, "power corrupts" seems to apply equally to AIs and humans. Basically, if The Smart Guy is a Jerkass because his intelligence makes it hard to be happy, multiply that by a scagillion for the AI. Of course, authors love to subvert the above with the AI either playing good, or becoming insanely evil as the super intelligence makes them into a Master Computer bent on enslaving humanity. Usually the calculator god sees it as so easy to make our lives paradise it says "What the hell, I'll kill a few calculation cycles now that I've done everything else". Depending on the setting, this help can range from establishing a true Utopia, a Mary Suetopia, a false utopia or even a Dystopia if it's so inclined.Ĭustomarily, when you can think faster than the speed of light it becomes trivial to prove Reed Richards Is Useless wrong and find solutions to hunger, hate, and happiness with surprising ease. Even though AI Is a Crapshoot, the more powerful the AI becomes, the likelier it is to choose to help you instead of just kill you. Okay, you've got your Instant AI, Just Add Water, all you need to do is add the water - but what's this? You used Phlebotinum instead of water! The AI has become as unto a god! We're doomed!