I thought about some of MacGyver's classic plots that strangely seem to mirror some of these current concepts, albeit with a human and a bunch of random things! Remember “The Gauntlet”? 🧄 In it, MacGyver, without any resources, had to create an escape plan for himself, which could easily be translated to AI's planning and adaptive nature that you're covering, the AI agent similarly assesses a challenge, scavenges data (or random items in MacGyvers case), and designs an approach for achieving a goal with that available. Think, how many AI scenarios will have something like MacGyver duct-taping stuff, and be successful at the end. 🥑 This ability to use anything at hand for a very singular goal with very focused results it is, to me, what connects the AI in your writing to the "man of all things" who also could create incredible gadgets to use against evil. 💣 Now, if we look at the episode, "Pilot", MacGyver manages to construct a lie detector from basic stuff he had around - rubber bands and needles, something which has a similar feel to the AI technology we are seeing these days where the systems look for patterns, analyzing, and using data points to understand truths or identify deception. Both of them operate in real time, changing tactics as things change, adapting to ever-changing variables, very focused, always. As always, with great pressure. When thinking about how to relate the old to the new this idea struck me, the creativity both concepts showcase is remarkable, just that McGyver needed a screwdriver, and now with Artificial Intelligence, we might only need a well defined dataset. Remember, "If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?" Perhaps that can be applicable here, what the implications might be, who knows. I always question the idea of free will, therefore, any of my thoughts could be satire - who knows.