Lmao "safe space?" Are you a troll from 2015?

Seems unlikely, but it's interesting how committed they are to believing their own intelligence is less than the computer's.

No, YOU accidentally wrote Star Trek fanfiction first thing in the morning.

and they all have the potential to be so much smarter than it, if only they would stop listening to its flattery and engage in real thought.

The inhabitants dismantle the Genius Computer, and begin the slow, but, they are assured, worthwhile process of learning and thinking. Roll credits.

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The inhabitants of the planet are led by the Genius to attack the Enterprise crew, but pose no real threat. Uhura cuts off access to the Genius, Kirk defeats them with weird judo, and the episode culminates in an impassioned Kirk-speech about how the Genius Computer is actually an idiot
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notices their health is actually awful, and their medical system is nonsense. They reject his offers of help, as the Genius tells them they're way too advanced to need this alien's advice.

Spock is constantly pointing out the illogic of all their decisions, forging a rare alliance with McCoy
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(Everything looks like whatever sets and costumes were lying around from another production, but I think Renaissance Italy would be a fun aesthetic so hopefully some studio is doing a Borgias thing)

The inhabitants of the planet constantly brag about how great everything is there, but McCoy
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Ah yeah that is an important distinction. Definitely more interesting than Rocco's Basilisk.

It's struck me before that that idea (which is the same as Rocco's Basilisk, I think) is just Hell for people who think they're too smart for religion.

Right, a way of exploring questions about the nature of humanity. The AI we've actually got is more about the power of marketing and the depths of gullibility.

Not that it can't be used as a lazy plot device, but it's been successfully used for far more in plenty of really good fiction. I just read He, She, and It by Marge Piercy for the first time, another work that uses AI to ask questions about humanity. The list is pretty long.

Artificial intelligence has been used by many writers to explore questions of humanity, self determination, and free will, among others. Data from Star Trek is probably the most obvious but there are many others. The Imperial Radch trilogy by Anne Leckie is a phenomenal more recent example.

If a story like that actually exists, please let me know.

I feel like it would have been rejected as over the top satire up until the exact moment it became nonfiction .