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The Mitchells vs The Machines review: Great sci-fi animation comedy

28 April 2021

Netflix's The Mitchells vs The Machines is laugh-out-loud funny animation as a hapless family end up as humanity's only hope against the machine

Melissa McCarthy and Bobby Cannavale in Superintelligence

Superintelligence review: A fun take on the AI apocalypse storyline

25 November 2020

In Superintelligence, Melissa McCarthy plays a character who must show a sentient AI that humanity is worth saving. The film is a strange but captivating mix of rom-com sci-fi and action

Providence review: Chilling sci-fi where an AI becomes god by accident

1 April 2020

Is our love affair with AI really about building a new kind of deity to meet human needs no amount of rationality can fill? Max Barry's disturbing novel Providence lays out the case, says Sally Adee

Rage, tech and Miley Cyrus: What the new Black Mirror will bring

24 May 2019

The trailer for the new season of Netflix's Black Mirror suggests the show will continue to capture our collective disquiet about technology – this time with a stellar new cast including Miley Cyrus and Andrew Scott

Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionise warfare. Be afraid

12 September 2018

Sci-fi loves to depict military AIs as malign killer minds or robots. But the truth is more subtle and more terrifying – and it's happening right now

Evading death and mind-uploading: The ambition of transhumanism

8 May 2018

Transhumanists could not stop for Death but they kindly stopped for Mark O'Connell, who has captured their beliefs and anxieties in his Wellcome Book Prize winning travelogue

DeepMind AI is learning to understand the ‘thoughts’ of others

28 February 2018

The firm’s new artificial intelligence has developed a theory of mind, passing an important psychological assessment that most children only develop around age 4