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I would love to read a science fiction story about an AI scientist that is monitoring the output of an AI weather model as a hobby, and then suddenly, on a seemingly completely normal day, sunny, windless, the AI starts screaming bloody murder, huge red warnings everywhere, like the world is about to end. spooky just to think about it. could be a fun thriller

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This reminds me of a movie, the name of which I can’t remember.

> A family father gets premonitions about a massive storm that will come, which triggers him building a bunker in his back yard. It is a family drama on how his obsession with protecting his family slowly tears it apart. In the end they convince the father to go on vacation for a few days, just to get away from the obsession. As they arrive in their vacation home, a huge, black storm cloud rolls in on the horizon

Great Movie, recommend watching it.

Take shelter, 2011. +1 for great movie

The last place you would want to be in a rainstorm is underground, right?

"build a boat," the AI said.

Kinda what happened in the first ever use of cfd to predict weather (which predated digital computers - all calculations were done by hand). Spoiler: there were no calculation errors, but the method was unstable (a kind of positive feedback where errors "blow up"). Does this count as "AI"? Kinda - maybe even god-like.

Anyway, everyone just ignored it. Except the scientist, who I suspect FTF out.

“Huh. Management isn’t going to like this,” said the data scientist. “Tell you what, let’s just agree it’s an outlier, and delete it. I’ve got tickets to close and the sprint ends tomorrow, I don’t have time for this.”

HBO hit series material

It's could be pretty short if the AI was right all along... a series of 1 episode.

"The AI warned us! Only the AI can save us now!"

New series of propaganda shows to get people to empathize with AI.

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