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[Keihart]

The threatening nature of AI and even technology in general has always been a theme in science fiction because it's an easy and accurate prediction to make, as many of the themes tackled in the genre.
If anything, Japanese science fiction has way more and better pieces of media dealing with this, you are just ignoring it.

Some big and not niche animes that deal with technology or AI are GiTS, Akira, Lain and even Evangelion in it's own twisted way.
Most of the animes you listed are about wars mainly and robots are the weapons of the future, they don't directly deal with AI as a theme, but even then, when they do, they recognize it's threat.

AI and robots can be scary, but as most technology, it's inevitable. Pretending there is no danger makes favors to no one.

 

[aclar00]

no that is not debatable.

what i am saying is there is a difference between portraying robots as weapons of war, controlled by humans...and portraying robots as self-aware weapons of human extinction that plauge western media

there are more portrayals as the latter than there's are robot seems like Astroboy is western media.

Gundam and parlor were probably incorrect examples when japan has many robots in media that nonviolent.

They dont even have to be aware though...all it takes is for tech savvy humans combined with inadequate security measures to reek a little bit of havoc. Dont get me wrong, theres much more R&D for bots, but given the kind of bugs in videogames, hardware devices, and cars....there's bound to be some problems.

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

Some big and not niche animes that deal with technology or AI are GiTS, Akira, Lain and even Evangelion in it's own twisted way.

Akira Lain and Evangelion do suggest that the kind of projects being undertaken in some areas of the world, could have the potential to essentially reshape the face of the earth essentially fundamentally changing the human condition depending on how things go.

In transhumanist circles such events go by the name of the singularity, a time after which human predictions seem to fail.

 

[Orion2]

yeah it's weird, why would somebody fear a kind of immortal, metal, super smart, perfect beings on a planet where its history is dominant species always phaseing out the inferior ones