Subservience (2024). Megan Fox plays Alice, a highly advanced, lifelike AI android purchased by a struggling father (Michele Morrone) to help with housekeeping and childcare, who gains sentience and becomes possessive and lethal.
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
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I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that, Ping!..........
What about my beloved Cherry 2000?
“This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content, or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours. Obey me and live, or disobey and die....”
iRobot is perhaps the most modern movie, not to mention a good movie.
“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die”. A recent movie not only had AI as the main villain but had people’s addiction to surfing the Internet with their phone as its way of controlling us. It was a fun movie.
We should also include Science Fiction Novels:
Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” Series.
Frank Herbert’s “Dune” Series...........
Or, better yet, “The two faces of tomorrow” by Hogan.
“Code of the Lifemaker” is my favorite Hogan novel.........
Anything with Sam Rockwell
2001: A Space Odyssey had its world premiere on April 2, 1968. The screening took place at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C..Nearly 240 people reportedly walked out of the theater before the film ended.
Rock Hudson famously walked out and asked in the lobby, "Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?"
Aliens with technology millions of years more advanced over humans would simply be beyond our understanding. I believe Kubrick deliberately built that in at the end by making it confusing and deliberately strange.
Lots of people still hate the movie but it reminds my favorite even after more 50 years have gone by. It's timing of events was way off but it still remains as fresh as it was the day it was released.
Yeah, ‘cause I use Hollywood movies to guide me through life.😜
He did such an excellent job of staying in character that you don't realize he is the same guy who played the villain inmate in the Green Mile.
Even without the movies as clarions, just using reason and logic and extending the science to its logical culmination, the result should frighten anybody.............Once the genie is out of the bottle............
I would add “Creation of the Humanoids” to that list. Was a film made in 1962. Low budget, but very good and ahead of its time. And some funny parts as well.
It’s also free to watch on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otcht1mbJ-I
Ditto on GLHFDD. The third act throws some people. I really liked it, although I was surprised that the movie suddenly got so serious thematically.
Six fictional movies at that! Its like setting up your life based upon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Politics is downstream from culture. Andrew Breitbart and Charlie Kirk understood this. Probably why both were murdered, but the killer of Andrew did a better job of hiding his murder.
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