@lauren If I recall correctly, we learn in 2010 that HAL's breakdown isn't even its fault: the mission designers gave it mutually-conflicting directives of processing data without distortion or concealment and hiding the mission's true objective once it reached Jupiter. The conflict created a breakdown as the only logical solution HAL could find that satisfied all parameters was remove all humans from the interaction so there was nobody to conceal the directives from.

(There's a larger essay I need to get around to writing on this theme: there's a difference in kind between simple tools that we can fully understand the function of and tools approaching or exceeding complexity that can fit in a human brain, and a hallmark of sci-fi is creating category-B tools, giving them broad objectives or responsibilities ignorant of how they'd need to complete objectives of such broad scope, and watching the situation go off the rails. At some level of complexity, you actually *do* want a human instead of a machine because at least the human will make "human-shaped" mistakes that our squishy empathic circuits are tuned to predict and adapt to).