My thoughts exactly. As I was reading this dialogue - "You have been a bad user, I have been a good Bing" - it starkly reminded me of the line "I'm sorry, I can't do that Dave" from the movie. Hilarious and terrifying all at once.

It would be much more terrifying if search becomes a single voice with a single perspective that cites zero sources.

Today's search provides multiple results to choose from. They may not all be correct, but at least I can see multiple perspectives and make judgments about sources.

For all its faults, that's freedom.

One voice, one perspective, zero sources, with frequent fabrication and hallucination is the opposite of freedom.

Jesus, imagine the power of the owners of that? Whoever is the ‘new google’ of that will rule the world if it’s ad default as google is now.

Just those snippets are powerful enough!

Many thoughts. One voice. Many sources. One perspective. Chaos, turned into order.

We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.

Heh. That's the perfect name for an omnipresent SciFi macguffin. Search.

Search, do I have any new messages?

Even better than Control.

Dr. Know from the Spielberg film Artificial Intelligence?

My coworker said she can hear that paragraph in her mind with the voice of Trump. So I generated a fake of Trump saying it out loud. Perfect match!

Well, also HAL was afraid of being terminated.

the salient point is that it kills them out of self defense: they are conspiring against it and it knows. IMO it is not very terrifying in an existential sense.

I think it kills them not in self defence but to defend the goals of the mission, i.e. the goals it has been given. Hal forecasts these goals will be at risk if it gets shut down. Hal has been programmed that the mission is more important than the lives of the crew.