We love a good killer computer movie.
That soulless, lifeless gaze is unsettling as all hell in a way that can’t help but be entertaining.
The fact that AI, in the real world, poses credible dangers to the world at large only makes it a more gripping subject in fiction.
Really, two of the greatest and most iconic science fiction flicks ever made, The Terminator and Blade Runner, center around murderous, tough-as-nails androids.
More recently, Alex Garland’s excellent Ex Machina features a never-better Alicia Vikander as a humanoid robot willing to kill in order to attain her own emancipation.
Even more recently, the AI-centered M3GAN has been making waves since its release in January, making a damn fine profit in a month’s time and returning the topic of artificial intelligence and killer computers to everybody’s mind.
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