Chris Paine's first documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car?, worried that a technological advance was so game-changing -- in a good way -- that powerful corporations might never allow it to enter the world. In Do You Trust This Computer?, he looks the other direction: at developments in artificial intelligence, seen as terrifying even by some involved in creating them, that may be out in the world before we even realize we want to stop them. Though it shows some strain in containing the topic's inherent sprawl, the doc is more thoughtful than some of its predecessors, and benefits from interviews with newsmakers like Elon Musk and, even better, Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan. Things start unpromisingly, when a long, overheated string of sound bites leads into a clip of James Cameron's Termin-- what do you mean you've seen this documentary before? Quickly, though, the doc moves from Skynet and HAL 9000 to Nolan, who worries that sci-fi has "cried wolf enough times" that, with AI now a real-world threat, the public may not be able to take it seriously.

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Nobody wants to confront the idea of their own obsolescence. Still, sitting across a desk from Kris Hammond, in his office overlooking the lake shore in Chicago, it is hard not to at least have a sense of the inevitable. Hammond is the co-founder and chief scientist of a company called Narrative Science, which, among other things, has worked out a way of teaching machines how to write journalism. At the moment, the computers' output is limited to basic sports reports and business news. But Hammond is convinced this is only the beginning.

From Ian Holm's portrayal of Ashe in Alien to Brent Spiner's Data in Star Trek, our fascination with realistic Artificial Intelligence has evolved over time. The premise is certainly not a new one, but it still touches us at a primal level: What does it mean to be human? The old adage of "if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck…" is ultimately one of identity and identification. If it looks human and acts human, well… That's a question that has tripped us up for decades. UNCANNY is the story of a gifted young scientist, David (Mark Webber), who has spent the last 10 years of his life willingly locked away in a Tony Stark-esque candyland with state of the art technology creating the most realistic artificial intelligence the world has ever seen: Adam (David Clayton Rogers).