I've been rereading old books that might have been unduly influential on my young mind and thus returned to Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress". The protagonist is an apolitical computer programmer who befriends his computer and gets sucked into plotting a coup against the prison/government system for its failure to be adequately benevolent when a crisis arises that requires the role of "government" be filled by a regime able to do something other than "pure benign neglect + stealing shit sometimes".
The model of "computing" is very retrofuturistic (an imaginary future projected forward from a simpler era) but its technicalities have an internal logic of sorts. The computer participates in the political discussions... Reading again with modern eyes, I was surprised to find a lurking alignment story.
Crystal Society
Friendship is Optimal & related spinoffs
Define "related?"
Stories of wishes gone awry, like King Midas, are the original example.
just in case just you consider just knowing the theme as kind of a spoiler; the short movie:
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is about what happens when a partially aligned AI takes over the world before its creators expect that.
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just in case just you consider just knowing the theme as kind of a spoiler; the short movie (part of an anthology):
Love, Death & Robots s1e14: Zima Blue
Anthology name, without more details for those desiring partial information:
Love, Death & Robots
Detonation -- an entertaining book that tries to flesh out a fast takeoff scenario and explicitly cites Bostrom and Yudkowsky. However, it also makes some extremely dubious choices; for example, the protagonist is a Marine hired to fight against the unfriendly AI, which doesn't seem like a very effective AI alignment strategy.
Steven Universe s1e24
i didnt know that story, but a friend just told me that "avocadro corp" is showing in vivid detail how an autocorrect system like grammarly could be harnessed by an AI to subtly take over the world
movie: Ex Machina
[kidding] Who Framed Roger Rabbit is about the aftermath of an unaligned AI that was successfully fitted with a shutdown button whose existence it completely ignores, and the programmers pressed the button after a few seconds of seeing the AI begin to implement its plan.
I would have expected this question to already have been asked, but I couldn't find it.