Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey was on
HAL did not "go nuts" or know anything more about the monolith than the humans did. He killed or tried to kill the humans because he saw them as presenting a risk to the successful completion of the mission to Jupiter, which could easily be accomplished without human presence. His programming told him to complete the mission by whatever means necessary.
IMO the whole point of the film is to show how much humans depend on the tools they have created to make their lives easier. In the beginning we witness the apes becoming more powerful than the other animals through the discovery of tools (the bone). Flash forward 2 million years to see the descendants of that first tool (the spaceship and HAL) becoming more powerful than the humans that created them.
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