Reminds me of Person of Interest.

I'm still amazed this show had a full run on mainstream TV. One of the best TV/movie treatments of "Hacker News topics" there has been.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_%28TV_serie...

This reminds me of the Halo series lore:

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Offensive_Bias

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/032_Mendicant_Bias

Sure Xerxes seemed like a good idea but we all saw how that worked out...[1]

[1] http://shodan.wikia.com/wiki/XERXES