Movies Portray AI Threatening Human Lives

A cultural analysis examines how films depict terrifying AI, citing the recent Mercy (starring Chris Pratt), Westworld (1973 film, 2016 HBO series), Avengers: Age of Ultron, the 1988 and 2019 Child's Play films, and M3GAN. The piece traces a throughline from early cinema to modern blockbusters where autonomous systems turn on humans, highlighting societal fears and ethical implications for design and oversight of autonomous technology.
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Low novelty and limited scope, driven by film recap and cultural commentary, reducing technical relevance to practitioners.
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