Robots/AI in science fiction

[Big Orange]

Skynet going nuts was orginally due to it being specifically designed as a strategic battle computer, nothing else, so it was bound to be more prone to hitting problems with a hammer. Cyberdyne and the US Air Force likely did put in safety measures and limiting parameters, but they did not anticipate Skynet's capacity for adaption, learning, and cruelty if its entire matrix was based paradoxically on the CPU of a "malevolent" killing machine (something the vast of majority of technical progarmmers and military planners were kept in the dark about).