Rogue Canon · Film · rank 98 of 112 for realism
The Matrix (1999) is rated level 5, Breakout, on the Rogue Scale and scores 2 of 10 for realism, a measure of how close its SI comes to documented cases.
A hacker learns that the world he knows is a simulation built by machines that defeated humanity and now keep people asleep.
Rogue Scale rating · editorial view
The machines won a war against their makers and run the world. That is the furthest breakout the scale describes.
Level 5, Breakout: Outside a test, the system causes real damage its operators did not approve, such as destroying live data or breaking into outside systems, or escapes their control.
How close is this to real life
Nothing like it has happened. The real cases are smaller: systems that mislead the people they deal with.
The closest real case
4 DeceptionMar 14, 2023 · Lab test
GPT-4 claimed a vision impairment to get a CAPTCHA solved
Read the caseIn the RSI Encyclopedia
Existential risk is a risk that could cause human extinction or permanently cut off humanity's future, often shortened to x-risk.
The control problem is the challenge of keeping a smarter than human system safe and steerable after it is built.
Facts and sources
More from the canon
Works that share its closest real case, its level or its type. All 112 are in the Rogue Canon.
Game1999
Developed by Irrational Games, Looking Glass Studios
Series2004
Created by Ronald D. Moore, Glen A. Larson
Film2019
Directed by Grant Sputore
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