Nicely summed up ...
HALMovie was sure frighting. Hal was built into the Discovery One spacecraft, and is in charge of maintaining all mechanical and life support systems on board. HAL also has several "eyes" placed periodically around the spacecraft.
A bot can say only what the human programmer has allowed it to say. I do like bots coz they deal with the issue or question without trying to sell you something. At least so far.
The problem with bots is they do direct you when you surf the web or websites by specifying what results you see in web searches or what appears in your "feed" on sites like Facebook. And what appears in your searches and feeds is often determined by corporations paying money to control what is is that comes up in your searches or feeds...