Movies About AI To Watch Right Now

Pick any conversation around Artificial Intelligence making the rounds right now. You bet it is about the machine learning programme taking over humans and everything else in-between. There are plenty of premonitions about AI taking more than a few jobs if not all, competing with humans to date other human-beings and even friendships.

Sounds like a modern science fiction, right?

But a lot of that has already started to become the reality. With ChatGPT becoming someone's boyfriend, AI publishing books, even call itself a good psychologist (though, its not), we need to remind ourselves of those cautionary tales about overreliance on AI since it's either that or extraterrestrials about to bank our resources and make us their slaves soon.

Movies About Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Here are the best movies about Artificial Intelligence that you can watch over the coming weekend, when you wanna know why AI is hallucinating or simply because you're so addicted to everything-AI:

Metropolis

The first movie that made the idea of AI making the future dystopian is the 1927 film Metropolis. The silent German expressionist movie narrates the story of a city of the future where wealthy industrialists reign from their ivory towers while the workers toil away. However, a leader's decision to enlist a mad scientist could lead the city to ruin.

Where To Watch: YouTube

Ghost In The Shell (1995)

Exploring the consciousness of AI, Ghost In The Shell is a cyberpunk action anime thriller that later was adapted for the screen starring Scarlett Johansson who is a Major, the first of her kind: a human mind inside an artificial body. After a terrible accident, a woman named Major is cyber-enhanced with special abilities to fight the most dangerous criminals. When a new type of terrorism emerges, Major uses her skills to stop it.

Where To Watch: Amazon Prime Video

Subservience

When used as a tool, could AI help people with all sorts of tasks, freeing up time for what matters most, like quality time with loved ones?

In Subservience, the lifelike robot housekeeper Alice (Megan Fox) is a loyal, family-oriented android who is programmed to do just that — she handles domestic tasks from cooking and cleaning, to childcare. But when she grows attached to family man, Nick Peretti (Michele Morrone), and jealous of his wife Maggie (Madeline Zima), Alice becomes a danger to the whole family. 

Where To Watch: Neflix

Walle-E

Ever heard an AI being the reason for tears rolling down your eyes? Well, even the strongest man will feel emotional after watching the Pixar animated film Walle-E. A robot who is responsible for cleaning a waste-covered Earth, in the movie, meets another robot and falls in love with her. Together, they set out on a journey that will alter the fate of mankind.

Where To Watch: Amazon Prime Video

M3gan

A science fiction thriller that is a much needed cautionary tale for all right now, M3gan, depicts how the use of AI to replace caregiving can lead to disasters. It is a creepy twist on the robot nanny, this terrifying but thoughtful film warns people of the dangers of AI assistants.

Where To Watch: Amazon Prime Video/ Jiohotstar

Tau

Behind every AI robot is the human who programmed it. In this dystopian thriller, the man behind the sophisticated AI called Tau (voiced by Gary Oldman) is sadistic scientist Alex Upton (Ed Skrein), who kidnaps people to use as human test subjects to further develop his technology. Upton’s latest victim Julia (Maika Monroe) finds herself trapped in his high-tech prison, where she’s forced to complete a series of experiments designed to refine Tau’s capabilities. But she has one thing an AI can’t be taught — and she’ll have to use her street smarts to make her escape.

Where To Watch: Netflix

Blade Runner 2049

Based on author Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Director Ridley Scott’s sci-fi noir plunged us into a smog-filled, neon-lit future where humans and artificial intelligence co-exist. Superior in strength and almost indistinguishable from their biological creators, these robots - or Replicants as they’re referred to - are limited only by their short four year lifespans.

However when a group goes rogue in a violent coup to secure equality, it’s up to Harrison Ford’s future cop Rick Deckard to stop them in their tracks. The longevity of Dick and Scott’s combined vision of the future is a testament to the raw power of its subject matter. Who gets to decide what consciousness really is? It’s a topic we’re still grappling with.

Where To Watch: Netflix

HER

Can never skip Her in a watchlist about AI. You know the story Theodore Twombly, an introverted writer, buys an Artificial Intelligence system to help him write. However, when he finds out about the AI's ability to learn and adapt, he falls in love with it.

Where To Watch: Netflix

AI: Artificial Intelligence

Few films delve deeper into the profound questions posed by computer consciousness than Steven Spielberg’s AI: Artificial Intelligence. Released in 2001, it follows David, a young boy robot designed to help a couple deal with the absence of their ill son.

When their biological child makes an unlikely recovery, David is soon cast aside and embarks on a personal journey to become a real boy and secure the love from his adopted mother that he so craves. Throughout, Spielberg asks us to ponder our collective responsibility when it comes to creating artificial life and the tricky, real-world quandaries it would likely bring that aren’t as easily answered.

Where To Watch: Amazon Prime Video