The Truth About Killer Robots

The Truth About Killer Robots is a 2018 documentary made by Third Party Films.[1] It describes describing the hitherto ignored issues related to robots that have been involved in human fatalities.[2]

The Truth About Killer Robots
Directed byMaxim Pozdorovkin
Produced byJoe Bender, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Music byThe Presidential Band
Edited byMaxim Pozdorovkin
Release date
  • September 16, 2018 (2018-09-16) (Toronto Film Festival)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

The documentary investigates the 2015 killing by a robot of an assembly line manager in a Volkswagen factory in Germany, a driverless Tesla car that hit a white truck ahead of it and the use of drones by the police in the USA (especially in Dallas) to drop bombs on snipers and suspects. It also follows the use of artificial intelligence in facial tracking, use of robots in Japan including hotels manned by them, Geminoids in Japan, and the use of facial recognition for targeted marketing. [3]

The films uses Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics", first proposed by him in his 1942 short story Runaround, and describes how human beings have in recent years ignored them. The film follows these with interviews with experts in the field, footage of real robots being used for bomb disposal and "smart guns" that are able to shoot people automatically based on facial recognition. The film questions the morality of these uses and highlights the inadequacy of the current legal structure to address these issues.[2]

Reception

The Truth About Killer Robots premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2018.[4] The Hollywood Reporter found the film interesting, but was critical of the fact that it does not address the widespread use of drones in war torn areas to kill civilians and suspects.[2] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a score of 88% based on reviews from 8 critics, with an average rating of 6/10.[5]

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References
  1. "Official website". Third party films. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  2. "Maxim Pozdorovkin's ('Our New President') robot review ranges from the good Isaac Asimov to the bad bottom-liners, whose automatons kill jobs". The Hollywood Reporter. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  3. "'The Truth About Killer Robots' explores how robots can take our jobs". Business Standard. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  4. "TIFF review: The Truth About Killer Robots". Now Toronto. 14 September 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  5. "Rating - The truth about killer robots". Rotten tomatoes. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
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