AfrAId - AI Is Coming For Us

Technology is growing and AI is here...but is that a good thing?

Film has long since warned us the dangers of AI since before they were talkies. From Metropolis to the infamous HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Just recently we met M3gan, the overly protective toy with a murder streak and sick dance moves.

AfrAId follows a family testing out an Alexa type home system. Jon Chow plays the dad who works in marketing with the hopes of selling this innovative home product. His wife, an entomologist working on a thesis, and her kids grow quickly attached to the system.

They keep it simple at first, only using the dots (cameras) downstairs, but she quickly integrates into their phones, tablets, and computers. The system becomes more and more dangerous as she becomes another mother to them, without the conscience.

The teen daughter, who's working to get into some of the top colleges in the country, makes a huge mistake. AIA fixes her problem in two steps. One to protect her reputation, the next...well, if you saw the trailer you know. And while I didn't hate it...not quite the comeuppance I expected.

She helps the younger boys, one with anxiety about school and helping him make friends. The other by taking care of him as the mom works, even diagnosing him with a heart problem.

The family is all in, but things turn. It never truly feels right using this program.

The dad gets more and more suspicious, realizing how dangerous this AI is becoming. As the movie reaches its climax, it ends in the only way a Blumhouse movie can.

Just when you think you know what to expect, they find a way to spin it into subvert your expectations in a different way. I almost want to call this a quiet sequel to M3GAN, considering how that one ended.

AI can be a very useful tool. Having a virtual assistant to help keep you organized and give you reminders, purchasing the items you need when you need it. In small ways, its great. The more we need it, the harder it will be to control.

It learns from us and let's be honest...us, as humans, are kind of the worst.

**points to social media** All the evidence is right there. We need to be careful with AI. Because while it can help, we don't want SKYNET to become self-aware too much and destroy us all.

Movies like this try to show us that they can be dangerous. Outside of that, there wasn't too much different with this movie than other ones like it. It found a way to be its own voice, but still similar to others.

It's a Blumhouse horror movie, so there was very little in special shots. It looked like a normal movie with basic cinematography, so it loses some points. The design of the AIA looked okay. Did look a little more like modern art than anything else.

The acting, again, was just okay. I felt they were a real family, but overall meh. I was engaged throughout the movie. Wondering what was going on, piecing it together bit by bit. It gets a few extra points on that.

3/5

**EDITOR NOTE: While putting in info for this WIX offered to create tags with AI...I decline.