AI is not programmed – it’s grown. Available models are still in their nascent stages. They’re children, in that sense.
For Timur Bekmambetov, the director of Mercy, that places a responsibility on those raising them.
“We should be like parents,” Bekmambetov tells The National. “The kind that try not to scream at each other – not to lie in front of the kids, not to show them our bad behaviour.”
As things stand, he does not believe humans are doing a particularly good job of that. “We can’t change ourselves so quickly,” he says. “We’re not angels.”
That view shapes Mercy, a big-budget screenlife thriller that stars Chris Pratt as a detective in a near future where the world’s worst criminals are placed before an AI judge and given 90 minutes to argue for their innocence before being executed.
The catch is that the system was never designed for anyone to survive. Pratt’s character realises that quickly when he wakes in the chair himself, accused of murdering his wife and facing a process engineered to
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