Unknown: Killer Robots

It's somewhat confused about whether it wants to present AI used for defense as a moral threat or necessary "for the safety of our nation." Many groans during this documentary.

As such it comes across as propaganda designed to lead the viewer to the tired trope: "it's frightening but our adversaries are developing it too." and "one nation will not agree..". The audience groans knowing which nation that will be. Namely the one in the documentary.

Protagonists such as the Navy Seal guy (clearly a psychopath) is presented as reasonable voice, yet for most viewers imbues a deep sense of immorality.

A Secretary of Defense talks about "saving lives," whilst a Lockheed Martin employee talks about wildfires. This insults our intelligence. Human not artificial.

Netflix scores another propaganda hit.

Next race is here stumbling struggling to walk on surfaces flying discreetly sensing the heat temperatures and using lethality to complete an assignment. Excellent visuals in drawing a clear picture of what's at stake in a world where more and more competitors joins the neverending race of achieving absolute supremacy. Interviews gave an opportunity to actually focus the issue on it's real roots. Documentaries such as this is needed more and more and plays a key role in reminding every human how fragile the balance of every element is. Great use of audio and visuals. A short educating documentary.

So apparently they used a bunch of youtube videos without the creators' consent (like LowkoTV) to create this documentary and now make money essentially streaming the work of others on Netflix. You are highly mistaken if you believe a penny went to the original creators. Not even a dime, actually. Unethical, illegal and therefore not worth a minute of anyone's time.

You would think that at that point even in 2023 people have already learnt enough about AI to assess the implications and risks. Like many documentaries, however, this one does not talk about specific applications of AI, instead focusing on general information one could get by... asking AI (ironic, I know). I suppose it's good for people new to the technology world, but on the other hand, is it really?

Obviously, this 1-hour documentary can't cover every aspect of AI from every perspective with every nuance expertly explained, so IDK why so many other reviewers seem to bash it for not doing those things. It's only an hour, and it does a good job of touching on many of the issues & perspectives. Do we need AI? Of course. Will there be abuse? Of course. Is that already happening? Of course. Will it get worse? Of course. Will anyone try to slow that process down?

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That's what I see as the real point of this documentary, and in that light, it does an excellent job of presenting the arguments for slowing down right beside the arguments for speeding up. That's why I think some reviewers were confused, or thought that the documentary was confused/confusing. It doesn't make an argument, and then answer that argument - it raises the issue to be debated & dealt with in a way that the average viewer can follow & (hopefully) appreciate.

Because EVERY example shown of AI being used, and the few examples shown of it being ABused, were dangerously easy for any government, corporation, faction, religion, glee club, or introvert next door to accomplish with no special training or equipment.

The military applications are the LEAST-worrying.

Everything in this is advertising. You have the cgi idealistic shots to the actual ground shots and dear lord compare the two.

This movie was paid for, sponsored for, marketed for, people trying to sell something. And they're behind! They're trying to sell you apple 20 years after iphone

However it's good as a teaching concept, introducing all of these things to new users who may not be as familiar.

In the end,

This movie was paid for, sponsored for, marketed for, people trying to sell something. And again?

This movie was paid for, sponsored for, marketed for, people trying to sell...

This movie was paid for, sponsored for, marketed for, people trying to sell something.