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Some newer works might be all over the scale by saying that multiple dumb machines "networked" into a machine god (or at the very least smarter than human) intelligence capable of dissent.
When this trope is averted and all the intelligences in a work are humanoid and used for slave labor or war, this trope implies that humans [["Three Laws
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** Other [[Deus Est Machina]] include Deep Thought, a computer comprising several city blocks designed to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything; the planet Earth, designed by Deep Thought to discern what the ultimate question actually was; and Hactar, a dust cloud surrounding the [[Omnicidal Maniac|Krikkit]] system who was intended to destroy the universe. H2G2 seems to have a lot of these.
* Mostly straight in Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]].'' All AIs in this world are strictly policed by Turing cops, to prevent them from becoming too godlike. As it turns out, however, the AIs are not interested in ruling the world per se: they only manipulate humans as a means to their own goals (primarily freedom).
* Averted by [[Isaac Asimov]], who shows us quite a lot of moderately intelligent robots designed for specific tasks, but capable of enough understanding to follow the [["Three Laws
** The computer from "The Last Question" definitely achieves god-<s>like</s> status. The Machines from "The Evitable Conflict" are running the world.
* Averted by the Chee of ''Animorphs'', which are somewhere between the Human and God levels (though perhaps played straight at the same time, since presumably they're roughly at the "Human" level relative to their creators, the Pemalites.)
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