Cybernetic revolt

A cybernetic revolt is a scenario in which artificial intelligences turn upon humanity to seize control of the planet, possibly exterminating humanity in the process.

Cybernetic Revolts in Science Fiction

• The first instance of this was in Karel Čapek's Play RUR, although in the original depiction robots are not machines so much as artificial humans.
• The Terminator film series
• The Matrix films
• The geth against the quarians in Mass Effect.
• The Cylons against the Twelve Colonies in the 2004 Battlestar Galactica reboot.