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
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The Preserve review: The inner struggle to survive in a robot world
9 December 2020
How do humans feel living in a world where robots outperform them, asks The Preserve by Ariel S. Winter. Clare Wilson says it's a great thought experiment
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
Ad Astra: Pirates and space monkeys can't save dull space psychodrama
18 September 2019
Brad Pitt stars in thoughtful sci-fi Ad Astra, but even his strong performance can't plug the plot holes in this movie's melancholy heart
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
How scaremongering stops us asking the right questions about AI
4 October 2017
We worry it’s going to steal our jobs – or even destroy humanity itself. But the real risks of AI are subtler and more tricky to handle
