Brain Bergstein in his article “Fiction that Gets AI Right” commented that “Even the most futuristic applications of AI, from robotic servants to instant health scans, somehow already seem familiar because they have been endless fodder for pop culture. At the movies, you’ve probably seen artificial intelligence as a menace in The Terminator or 2001: A Space Odyssey; as a near-destroyer of the world in WarGames; as our master in The Matrix; or as a companion (as in Her and in the Stanley Kubrick-Steven Spielberg combination that was called A.I. Artificial Intelligence).”
In this section, we share some movies, both blockbuster and lesser known ones, that have portrayed AI as sentinel beings and raised important questions such as “What if robots can feel and think for themselves?, “Can a human being and a robot be in love? and “What happens when a robotic boy yearns to be a real being to gain acceptance?”
What if robots can feel and think for themselves? I, Robot (2004)
Can a human being and a robot be in love? Robot and Frank (2012)
Her (2013)
What happens when a robotic boy yearns to be real to gain acceptance? AI Artificial Intelligence (2001)
More films
Star Trek (1966 – present)
2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968)
Star Wars (1977 – present)
Terminator (1984 – present)
Bicentennial Man (1999)
Minority Report (2002)
Wall-E (2008)
The Machine (March 2013)
Big Hero 6 (November 2014)
Ex Machina (December 2014)
Chappie (March 2015)
Avengers Age of Ultron (April 2015)
Westworld (2016 – present)
Electric Dreams (2017)