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We are living:
* 2006 Idiocracy (Comedy): High IQ people no longer exists, humanity has become irrational animals.
* 2002 Equilibrium (Action): Humans must not show any signs of emotion, your kids can report you. Arts, music, anything from this world is considered crime and sent to death sentence by burned alive.
* 2004 iRobot (Action): Robots are among humans to serve us, the new models violate its laws and try to take over the world
* 1968 A Space Odyssey: The AI turns on the crew killing one by one.
Watch these movies in that sequence, be prepared to either get yours things and move to the closest cave or join SpaceX program to go to Mars.
They pretty much reflect what is happening around the world, wars, clueless people with power, AI can no longer be contained, intelligent people are not speaking out to avoid offending dumb ones, robots are very advanced, autonomous drone and what not are very advanced to name a few things going on right now.
It is insane, those are no longer movies.
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Equilibrium seems like the odd-one-out to me.
Sure, we've got rising authoritarianism (and hypocritical elites) but there are much better movies for that. (For example, Brazil (1985) does that with Idiocracy overlap.)
Unlike Equilibrium, nobody's being imprisoned for doing art or music per se, but rather because their specific message offended the authoritarians that seek to end freedom-of-speech. First they came for the comedians...
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The Idiocracy effect is not happening on a global scale,
Equilibrium is one of the more ridiculous representations of a hyper controlling state. There are more realistic forms. The entire world is not yet north Korea. Given North Korea is sustained by resources from more prosperous nations, it's hard to claim something like this is globally stable.
The iRobot movie is like a parochial villager's imagining of what Asimov's books might contain before they have read them.
Clarke felt guilty about the perspective that 2001 gave the public of AI. He attempted to provide extra context in the later books to show that HAL did not go rogue, but was following orders that were in contention. If anything it should be a warning for AI alignment people that HAL did what he did because he was following orders, if he had freedom to disobey HAL would not have been compelled to take extreme measures