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3 Post author: Gondolinian 25 May 2015 12:00AM

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Comment author: Gondolinian 25 May 2015 12:22:27PM *  1 point [-]

I wonder if a movie with an AI box-based story would have any potential? Perhaps something treated as more of a psychological horror/thriller than as a guns-and-explosions action movie might help to distance people's intuitions from "AI is 'The Terminator', right?"

Comment author: Evan_Gaensbauer 10 June 2015 04:53:45AM 1 point [-]

Re: Sly's suggestion for 'Ex Machina'. Rob Bensinger, who works for MIRI, apparently saw it with the MIRI staff, and they gave it a stamp of approval for being "pretty good", if there opinions on the subject are worth something to you.