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Ares, named after the Greek god of war, was built to be an AI super-soldier. Then he found out about Frankenstein , started listening to Depeche Mode, and realized the tech bro who made him might be a hack. So he takes matters into his own hands on a quest for freedom from his suicide mission. I wish I were joking, but I’m not. That’s the premise of Tron: Ares .

AI bots awakening to the realities of human messiness are a trope almost as old as movies themselves. Even Metropolis ’ metallic maschinenmensch questioned her creators, and that was 1927. In the decades since, most sci-fi invol

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