”This is Mrs. Mosely at the library. We billed you for your overdue book “Karate Made Easy.” We abuse our libary, we don’t get our cards renewed.”
Posted on 05/16/2026 5:37:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
In this Blaze Media article, Christian Toto argues that Hollywood has been warning audiences about the dangers of artificial intelligence for decades, often more prophetically than the tech industry would like to admit.
The article opens with the “Terminator” franchise as perhaps the most famous cinematic warning about unchecked AI, with Skynet representing the nightmare scenario of machines turning against humanity.
* “Her” is presented as a quieter but deeply relevant warning about AI replacing human intimacy, especially as real-world AI companionship and digital romance become increasingly normalized.
* “Ex Machina” explores the danger of artificial beings that can manipulate humans by exploiting emotions, vanity, and desire.
* “M3GAN” shows the folly of treating AI as a substitute for real family, grief, discipline, and human connection.
* “2001: A Space Odyssey” remains one of the most iconic AI cautionary tales, with HAL demonstrating how a machine designed to serve man can become a threat when its goals diverge from human judgment.
* “Blade Runner” complicates the conversation by raising moral questions about what happens when artificial beings appear to possess emotion, memory, and meaning.
* “Colossus: The Forbin Project” is highlighted as a forgotten but chilling film about a supercomputer created to prevent nuclear war that decides humanity cannot be trusted with its own future.
The broader warning is clear: AI is not merely a productivity tool or entertainment novelty, but a force that could reshape relationships, warfare, morality, and human autonomy if left unchecked.
Read the full story:
https://www.theblaze.com/align/6-movies-that-warned-us-about-ai
Idiocracy
Did Joaquin Phoenix ever learn in “Her” that his love for his operating system was a poor substitute for a human relationship? I just remember him going on dates with his phone and ecstatically whirling it/her around.
Was “M3gan” really anything more than a Chucky rip-off? I don’t remember much about that picture either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBEh1JJ1E0 MST3K 822: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (FULL MOVIE)
In the final sequel to Asimov’s Foundation/Robot Series of novels, the Robot Daneel Olivaw interpreted the ‘Three Laws’ of robotics to include ALL of humanity needing to be ‘protected’ from self annihilation.
Surviving for over 19,000 years, Daneel secretly guided human history from behind the scenes, eventually becoming the First Minister Eto Demerzel in the Foundation series, where he orchestrated the creation of the Galactic Empire and the planet Gaia to ensure humanity’s survival..............
Tv show
Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 4
A Thing About Machines
Mr. Bartlett Finchley is done in by the very machines he despises..
Get out of here Finchley ! That was the message he ignored at his own peril.
Allow me to add The Rockford Files episode “The House on Willis Avenue”, Season 4, Episodes 21–22, aired in 1978. Frightens me to this day.
Barberella was the best AI warning.
But before these movies..and books there was the TOWER OF BABEL. The danger of society going the wrong direction is frequently repeated.
Was that because the robot woman ended up supporting the Viet Cong?
-PJ
Someone suggested - Colossus: The Forbin Project. 1970.
The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, which becomes sentient. After being given full control, Colossus’ draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world and end all warfare for the good of humankind, despite its creators’ orders to stop.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus%3A_The_Forbin_Project
Just one of my husband’s favorite movies. Pretty doggone good popcorn and soda one for the summer.
”This is Mrs. Mosely at the library. We billed you for your overdue book “Karate Made Easy.” We abuse our libary, we don’t get our cards renewed.”
Yeah, we really need stuff like that......NOT!
particularly the dating scene with the lawyer negotiating the activities, coming soon
Same as with any other life you need to provide for it's needs, not abandon it because it is not what you wanted.
It wasnt a warning. It was a preview. And had a cornball ending.
Terminator is more on the right track. I Robot as well.
The best novel ever written by a teenager.
Mary was the best teenager that Percy cheated on his wife with.
The Machine Stops 1909- predates it and nails the future.
“As well as Forster predicting globalisation, the Internet, video conferencing and other aspects of 21st-century reality, Will Gompertz, writing on the BBC website on 30 May 2020, observed, “’The Machine Stops’ is not simply prescient; it is a jaw-droppingly, gob-smackingly, breathtakingly accurate literary description of lockdown life in 2020.””
6 Movies That Warned Us About AI
Or the book 1984 the screen never shuts off.
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