The 20 Creepiest Movies About Artificial Intelligence
So what if everyone you love is a robot?
We all lie awake at night contemplating the likelihood that our lives are illusions that robots created for us. Right? These movies about artificial intelligence won’t help your insomnia but they will give you something fun to watch while you obsess over the inevitable demise of humanity. Sure, robots are probably going to take all our jobs away and make human intimacy obsolete. And it’s likely that sentient androids on the brink of existential crises will one day become a problem for humans. But that doesn’t mean we should stop enjoying movies about artificial intelligence. After all, they might be our best guide to surviving a robot filled future.The Terminator
A super soldier cyborg assassin gets sent through time from AI controlled 2029 to 1984 to kill the mother of the leader of the human resistance before he could even be born.
The assassin is followed through time by a human soldier whose job is to project the baby mama target but actually just impregnates her with the leader of the human resistance. Oh irony!
Plus the Terminator only exists because pieces of it’s destroyed body were found by crafty 1980s scientists who used it to reverse engineer the f—ing Terminators! Come with me if you want to lose hours of your day contemplating the intricacies and consequences of time travel.
2001: A Space Odyssey
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This epic Kubrick masterpiece features one of the creepiest and most legendary AI moments in movie history.
When sentient spaceship computer Hal, who takes his job very seriously, realizes that the human astronauts aboard his ship are feeling a little uncomfortable with his behavior he decides it would probably just be best to shut off all their life support. Sounds like a hostile work environment to me!
Transcendence
In this Johnny Depp movie from 2014 that literally nobody knows about, Depp plays an AI building scientist who gets shot by an anti-technology terrorist organization and decides to upload his brain to the quantum computer he has created since his body isn’t going to make it.
He manages to create lots of ground breaking, world changing, technological advances in this human brain/supercomputer hybrid state but people start getting uncomfortable once he gains the ability to hack into and control people’s minds.
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek Generations may not be thought of as an AI movie but it does feature one of the best known and beloved AI characters of all time, Data.
Originally seen in the tv show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data is a self aware android who cares deeply about other people, even if he often struggles to understand them. Star Trek Generations also features Data’s trusty companion and beloved pet, Spot, a cat who has no spots.