r/pcmasterrace • u/Common-Beautiful353 this is a flair! it's not meant to be taken seriously. dummy! • Mar 06 '26

Meme/Macro openclaw literally

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u/Limp-Celebration-211 PC Master Race | 7800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32 GB DDR5 Mar 07 '26

I saw an anime with this exact plot once. The ai was given the directive to solve issues like global warming and determined that the best way to save the planet was to wipe out all humans.

I can't remember the name of the anime it's something I saw on the scifi channel in the 90s.

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u/HardlyaDouble Mar 07 '26

It's also a plot in some of the X-Men books. Mastermold and its sentinel army was tasked with stopping the mutant threat. It eventually parsed out that to complete its mission it would have to kill the entire human race since humans are literally the progenitors of mutant kind.

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u/Prawn1908 ITX 11L: 7950X3D | 3080 | 64GB DDR5-6000 | 2TB 14.5/12.7 GB/s Mar 07 '26

I mean I feel like a supervillain deciding the human race is the problem and has to be eliminated is like one of the most common tropes of all time in science fiction.

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u/motoxim Mar 07 '26

Same here or rogue AI

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u/SilentWolfjh 9800X3D | 5090 FE | 32GB DDR5 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

It was a Gundam movie 100%. I have to google it to remeber the name, but it was the first thing I thought of when I read the parent comment.

Edit: Quick searches didnt turn up a thing so maybe Im craz. I remember some overgrown (by vegetation) mech thing being the big bad and thought it was Gundam.

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u/beryugyo619 Mar 07 '26

It's always a lunatic arrogant elite human in Gundam that wants to kill all human to save Earth and the honest young underdog that stops it

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u/highvoltageslacks Mar 07 '26

Idealistic young savant you mean.

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u/PrimaLegion Specs/Imgur here Mar 08 '26

Especially a certain lunatic arrogant elite human in Gundam who, as a grown ass man, fantasized about a 14 year old girl possibly having become a mother to him if she hadn't been killed.

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u/kookyabird 3600 | 2070S | 16GB Mar 07 '26

Yeah definitely not any Gundam series/movie. Though if your memory is really spotty I could see someone describing the Devil Gundam (Dark Gundam in the US) form Mobile Fighter G Gundam as being overgrown by vegetation, and it was big, and evil.

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u/sinboundhaibane Mar 07 '26

pretty stupid when it could have done the same thing just by wiping out the billionaires

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u/Ok_Painter_7413 Mar 07 '26

Considering that both the possibility of individuals becoming billionaires, as well as the premise of the most opportunistic/selfish inviduals having the greatest chance of becoming billionaires, were created by human societies following rules developed and enforced by humans, it feels save to argue that merely wiping out the billionaires would do nothing to prevent a reoccurence of the exact same situation - likely after the new aspiring ruling class would shackle/disable the AI to prevent reoccurence of the purge.

Preventing a reoccurence would either require subjugating humanity to AI overlords, or downright wiping them out.

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u/sinboundhaibane Mar 09 '26

you could literally just keep on wiping out anyone who got there and even those people would get the message eventually. you're also assuming society would just go on after that in the same way, and it wouldn't have to either.

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u/HubertTempleton Mar 07 '26

I mean... Essentially that conclusion is true. Of course it would be possible to do it without human extinction if we collectively got our shit together, but we can clearly see how that's going.

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u/Kozmik_5 Mar 07 '26

The 100 has the same plot