I, Robot | Isaac Asimov

A collection of nine science fiction short stories which are "told" by the fictional roboticist Dr. Susan Calvin regarding the rise, restriction, revival, rise to power of humanity's robots.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41808.Foundation_I_Robot


>>>>> CONCEPTS

A beautifully hopeless, even somewhat cheerful futility, a la The Ends of the Earth (Douglas Adams' original pitch for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio program)

Ambivalent A.I. - one of the few stories where the human fear of enslavement-reprisals hasn't portrayed an AI as a humanity-hostile - or merely insane - inevitably merciless murder-machine.