Question for fellow movie fans

In alot of old (sci-fi) movies and TV shows pitting humans against an emerging A.I. villain, the villain was often defeated by using a sort of logic/ethical loop, I think Star Trek may have even done this once.

An example might be something like...

The A.I. is perfect and must destroy imperfect (human) beings.

which was countered with the reasoning that the A.I. must be imperfect since it was created by humans....

which resulted in the disabling of the A.I.


I kniow this is an odd question, but I was wondering if there is a term for this sort of thing? Google search has resulted in nothing remotely near what I'm looking for.

Thanks

There's a trope for it. Something like talking a computer to death. Star Trek did it a lot. I think gene Roddenberry had a dislike for computers

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TalkingTheMonsterToDeath

https://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Induced_self-destruction

Uncanny Web-Slinger said:

There's a trope for it. Something like talking a computer to death. Star Trek did it a lot. I think gene Roddenberry had a dislike for computers

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TalkingTheMonsterToDeath

https://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Induced_self-destruction

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LOL! You weren'r kidding, I think Star Trek must have had the market cornered on this. Thanks for your great answer.

No worries. It's something I've noticed in the series

Sounds like someone's writing a paper

This is very interesting though, I'd like to read up on it properly and include this in our film narrative course

I know this is contemporary cinema, but I couldn't get through Transcendence on my first viewing 'cause it irritated the hell out of me - but I'm presuming they just unplugged him in the end? Bit of a different scenario because it wasn't true AI though.