Design News - Blog - The 15 Best Artificial Intelligence Movies

What if your phone or computer became aware of itself? Would it be helpful, or would it want to dispense with you? Our obsession with artificial intelligence is becoming apparent in popular film. Here are the best 15 movies that explore the idea of smart systems becoming conscious. The concept appears as early as 1968 with the HAL computer system in 2001: A Space Odyssey and moves though last year s Ex Machina, with both movie revealing a scary view of a machine that wakes up.