Robots from Sci-Fi: The First Alignment Failure

HAL 9000 Didn’t Go Insane. He Was Misaligned.

They think they are alone.

Dave Bowman and Frank Poole have climbed into one of Discovery One’s EVA pods, the small spherical vehicles used for extravehicular activity outside the ship. They need to talk without being heard. The ship’s computer, HAL 9000, has just reported a hardware fault that does not appear to exist. The twin 9000 back on Earth disagr…