Interstellar and 2001: A Space Odyssey are both about how humanity uses AI as tools, to our benefit and our detriment. Interstellar views its AI, TARS, as a helpful companion. It is personified consistently, even able to have its “humor level” adjusted by the main character, cooper. Cooper talks to TARS like a fellow astronaut and human with a warm tone and quipping jokes. At no point does the robot attempt to rebel or murder its human operators. In fact, multiple times does TARS explicitly state it is not able to disobey orders. It is a completely subservient operating machine that assists in saving humanity by transmitting the needed black hole data that would allow humanity to immigrate off the climate change decimated earth. In short, Christopher Nolan believes we will be able to control our technological advancements without fear. On the other hand, 2001 presents a more cynical view of AI. A Space Odyssey’s AI, HAL, is treated very differently. Throughout the film, the astronaut, Dave, orders the AI to complete tasks with no warmth or compassion. Clearly Dave views HAL as only a cold, calculating machine with no hint of a personality or soul. Dave is proven very incorrect because HAL kills his fellow humans as well as attempting to take Dave’s life. Stanley Kubrick uses these actions of HAL to work out a fear of AI being able to make its own decisions with malice. His cynical view asserts that AI may become smarter than its human creators and will not value human life. Interstellar is a unique case of hope and technology. It addresses our current crisis of technology induced climate change with a fictional famine due to over farming while TARS is what saves humanity. Christopher Nolan understands that while we used technology to create a problem, we will need advanced technology like AI to continue forward.