Ex Machina was a film I would recommend to others interested in sci-fi. The movie was based around a programmer, Caleb Smith, who works for the company Blue Book. Blue Book is the world’s most popular search engine and the company held a contest for one worker to win a one week vacation to visit the CEO, Nathan’s, private estate. Caleb ends up being picked and gets to be a part of Nathan’s experiment. Nathan has built an artificial intelligence whom he named Ava and he now wants someone to judge whether Ava is conscious. Nathan first explains Caleb’s purpose as simply being a part of a Turing test, in which Caleb gets to have one on one sessions with Ava where he can analyze her. During these meetings, Ava confesses her feelings toward Caleb and manipulates him into having sympathy for her. Knowing if she fails the test, she will be shut down she influences Caleb’s perspective of Nathan making him out to be a liar.

Later on in the movie, we find out that Caleb was not randomly picked, but rather specifically chosen because of his personal background, being orphaned at a young age and currently single. Nathan chose Caleb knowing Ava had the ability to trick him into helping her escape making him believe they could fall in love. In the end, Ava ends up escaping by killing Nathan and locking Caleb in the laboratory. I believe these artificial intelligences should serve the purpose of solely helping the human race, without being a part of it. These AIs having human-like emotions can be dangerous, as shown in the movie. They are a machine and should be treated like one, we should never have the fear of one day being “taken over” by robots, maintaining their control and not the other way around.