In the 1970 science-fiction film Colossus: The Forbin Project, the supercomputer is called Colossus. The film follows Dr. Charles Forbin, the computer’s designer, after the United States gives the system control over its nuclear defenses.
The film’s central fear is that a supposedly protective invention can create consequences its makers cannot control. That theme connects it conceptually with the Pandora’s box idea, although the movie is not a retelling of the Greek myth and does not use Pandora as the computer’s name.
Colossus is based on D. F. Jones’s 1966 novel Colossus. Joseph Sargent directed the film, and Eric Braeden played Forbin. The story belongs to the era of Cold War nuclear anxiety and early popular concern about artificial intelligence, automated weapons, and technological systems that exceed human control.