”Any technology from the simple knife to advanced nuclear energy can be used by humans for both good and malign purposes.
IN the 2015 film Ex Machina, a robot with a young woman’s face appears for most of the time to be a victim of the humans in the story. But towards the end of the film there is a twist, when (plot spoiler!) we see that all along the robot has been manipulating the humans. Popular culture has long been fascinated by such themes. Isaac Asimov’s 1950 Sci-Fi novel I, Robot, the Blade Runner films and the Commander Data character in Star Trek are as thought-provoking as they are entertaining.
But now reality may be overtaking fiction.