Gadgets Gone Wild - Top 10 AI Run Amuck

Humans may not enjoy the day when artificial intelligence (AI) wakes up. Sure, computers and robots can help ensure national security and even nanny the kids. But secretly they're planning to save humanity from itself by enacting a robotic coup. Or else they harbor machine hatred for biological life. Or they're trying to survive when the technicians arrive to fix their supposed "malfunction."

Science fiction has spun such cautionary tales of the machine revolution for years. With the 'Terminator' franchise's Skynet going back on-line this week, we take a look at some of our favorite AI gone wild in sci-fi movies and television.

Just don't call them power-hungry dictators or genocidal maniacs -- they simply want their future, too.

-- Jeremy Hsu, Staff Writer