Comment on More Human Than Human review: Light on killer robots, killer on AI inspection

More Human Than Human review: Light on killer robots, killer on AI inspection

Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting More Human Than Human comes along at a time when perhaps no reminder is necessary: leaving life to bots—whether that means machine learning, artificial intelligence, genuine human-like androids, etc.—might get messy for us humans. Westworld gives us one version of a sentient-machine uprising every Sunday, and news cycles like those involving Cambridge Analytica and Facebook provide gentler reminders that creating increasingly intelligent tech platforms can lead to unwanted manipulation and consequences right now. But the new documentary (which debuted at South by Southwest and plays at the acclaimed Hot Docs festival in Toronto this week) doesn’t set out to paint a picture of some futuristic hellscape.

 

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