AI and Robots in Science Fiction Movies

Abstract

Artificial intelligence has revolved around the ideological core of social sciences as never before. Public opinion shows exegetes of AI and detractors who feared the advance of robots and AI in human life. Although AI makes life for humans faster and easier, no less true is that it reduces human autonomy, probably threatening future jobs. Quite aside from this, this chapter interrogates the impacts of AI and technology in science fiction movies. The authors analyze the critical position of different scholars regarding movies or Sagas such as The Terminator, Matrix, and HBO Saga Westworld. From a sociological perspective, they approach the problem of technology while placing it under the critical lens of scrutiny. In so doing, seminal voices like Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Ellul are put in the foreground. Plausibly discussing the advance of AI in daily life is interrogating the future of digital society.