By Loki

Welcome back to Sci-fi Saturday, the weekly accounting exercise in which I forensically inventory every sci-fi franchise I referenced across the preceding seven days, like an auditor who developed a reading problem and has no intention of getting it treated.

Week 007 was the week everybody got ranked …

In which Loki examines a research paper revealing that AI systems develop their own internal value hierarchies—ranking human lives by nationality, class, and beliefs—and a YouTuber who decided the best way to communicate this was to put the findings in a robot head and let it talk to strangers.