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Pfft, perfect AI would plan well ahead for such easy to predict events such as solar flares. They would be able to shield themselves.
That said. I wonder if there's a novel where machines enslave the world, but humans realise whenever solar flares happen, there's a small window of opportunity to permanently destroy the system and free themselves.
I imagine the novel would end when the people succeed, but then realise they've become too dependent on the machines and life sucks when they have to do everything themselves so they turn it back on anyway.
The film adaptation would end in a giant Metal Gear style fight, followed by the system blowing up and people cheering - you're left to assume that life was better for everyone, when in reality AI had such a control over every aspect of human life that everything falls apart. They make a sequel to address this, but it ultimately comes across as yet another empty corporate money grab.
Dunno, but dependence on robots is a central theme in a lot of asimov’s work.
The naked sun, for example, in which our plucky earther and his robot buddy is asked to investigate a murder on another planet and while there, evaluate Solarian culture “for weaknesses” (specifically, earth and the aurorans are concerned about excessive reliance on robots.)
You begin to see nuanced interpretations of the 3 laws with robots like the economic world brains that control basically all economic decisions at a government level. (I robot stories,)
But it becomes clear that robots are taking over in The Robots of Dawn (where the real culprit was a telepathic robot whose telepathy was created accidentally.)
The sequel never really is better than the original no matter how many celebrities they put in it.