Deadlock's battle-replay feature and the wider Battlestar Galactica setting establish the shared case study. In the original continuity, non-human creators build the Cylons as war machines. The reimagined continuity makes humans their creators. Both versions connect a fictional machine uprising to the contemporary weaponization of artificial intelligence. The franchise history is invented, while the question of autonomous machines built for war is current.
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Cylon origin stories and weaponized AI
The original and reimagined Cylon origin stories offer two fictional routes to the same real question about building autonomous machines for war.