I thought about making a post about this episode, but :effort:. So thanks for doing it!

I was particularly struck by the coincidence of watching this episode right after binge watching this season of Person of Interest. For those not familiar, Person of Interest deals with two mostly out of the box AI's battling for supremacy.

Of course, it deals with the issues in a somewhat ham-fisted way, but I like that the show doesn't ridicule the idea of AI being dangerous in ways that we don't expect.

SPOILERS FOLLOW

On the issue of dealing with things in a ham-fisted way...there's a scene where a human agent of one AI that seems to be losing the AI war spends what he says is 10 minutes inspecting the operating system of a tablet computer the dominant AI is going to distribute to children to (supposedly) brainwash them. After inspecting the code and destroying the factory he feels bad because there was only one line in the operating system's code that might possibly be suspicious. One line. In the whole operating system. In ten minutes

TV shows deal with computers in laughable ways and I'm used to that. This one really just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason.