Cinema, AI, and Human Nature – Film School Rejects

Open any newspaper and you'll find a profusion of articles and op-eds debating the future of artificial intelligence. Elon Musk is terrified of it. The AI mania has even permeated the film world, which (the latest slew of "film is dead" articles warns us) will apparently not escape the automation boom. Of course, our public conversation about AI has long been tied to the cinema. As our own Sinead McCausland has pointed out, films have supplied the popular imagination with images and existential questions about AI since Fritz Lang's Metropolis.