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Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant – Contemporary Horror of AI (2020)


’s Prometheus and Alien: Covenant — the contemporary horror of AI “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded." —Steven Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author[1] [open endnotes in new window] Science fiction is one of the earliest movie genres.

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