"There aren't many television shows yet about how AI affects our daily lives. After all, there isn't much dramatic potential in shows about creatively flaccid people using ChatGPT to write woeful little Facebook updates. But that is not to say we haven't come close. For years, fiction about AI tended to be exclusively about killer robots, but some shows have taken a more nuanced look at how AI will shape our lives over the next few years."
"As this Channel 4 sci-fi wore on, it headed more and more towards the killer robot trope, as the synthetic humans gained consciousness, realised how shabbily the human race had treated them, and sought revenge. But in the more contemplative first season, Humans revolved around the idea of how humanity and AI interact. In an age in which people fall in love with their chatbots, and parents are suing OpenAI for ChatGPT allegedly encouraging their children to kill themselves,"
"Another slightly lazy thing for creators to do is to use AI as an all-knowing bogeyman, as the last two Mission: Impossible films proved. Jonathan Nolan's Person of Interest narrowly avoided falling into this trap, even though it was about an artificial intelligence program designed to prevent crime before it is committed. Person of Interest became more relevant when it introduced a second, less scrupulous program that was determined to destroy the first."
Several television dramas portray AI beyond killer-robot clichés, focusing instead on social and ethical consequences. Humans begins as a contemplative exploration of human–AI interaction before synthetics gain consciousness, experience mistreatment and seek revenge, while its first season anticipates real-world attachment to chatbots and legal controversies. Person of Interest centers on an artificial intelligence that prevents crimes and later introduces a rival, less scrupulous program, highlighting risks of competing systems. Devs envisions machine-learning power that analyzes comprehensive datasets to predict outcomes. These shows emphasize human relationships with AI, surveillance implications, and ethical dilemmas.
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