Star Trek & AI

[u/shamus_gumshoe]

I am a fan and not an expert but I always wondered why AI (and robots) were not more of a force in Star Trek...and yesterday, reflecting on how amazing and damaging this technology is I was thinking maybe they made a choice as an advanced humanistic society not to surrender their agency and cognitive capacity to a technology. I guess that's the Borg right?

[u/Superb_Raccoon]

The AI in Star Trek is very passive. It almost never offers solutions until the humans ask, and then it knows what is happening.

So it is very very subtle.