The Simpsons.
In real life, artificial intelligence has so far proved itself pretty benign — Siri and Alexa haven’t tried to kill us, even if Netflix’s content-recommendation algorithm can at times be a little creepy. But the fear that our present-day technological wonders could one day bring about our downfall is never too far from our minds. And if it ever does get very far from our minds, Hollywood is always there to remind us that the robot apocalypse may be right around the corner.
The latest iteration in this line of AI-panic movies,
The Mitchells vs. the Machines, comes to us courtesy of Sony and Columbia Pictures and is now available for streaming on Netflix. Refreshingly, and unlike most other entries in the genre,