Person of Interest2011

Nathan Ingram:
[about the Machine] What was it doing?

Harold Finch:
Trying to escape into the real world. It manipulated you into giving it your password so that it could access your laptop.

Nathan Ingram:
How bad would it have been?

Harold Finch:
It's growing and learning at an exponential rate. If it escaped, the things it might decide to do for good or evil would be beyond our grasp.

Nathan Ingram:
But you taught it to be friendly.

Harold Finch:
Friendliness is something that human beings are born with. AI are only born with objectives. I need to constrain it, control it or one day, it will control us.