Hiroshi Ishiguro

Featuring robotics gurus and trans-humanists, this documentary breaks down what it takes to build AI and how robots may soon expand human life.

When a robot kills a human, who takes the blame? An eerie, eye-opening work of science nonfiction, this documentary charts incidents in which robots caused the deaths of humans--in an automated Volkswagen factory, in a self-driving Tesla vehicle and by a bomb-carrying droid--considering the issues that these cases raise in terms of accountability and morality.

We draw upon Philip K. Dick’s work as well as various cinematographic adaptations of his novels in order to illustrate the extent to which K. Dick’s oeuvre foretold the world that has become our own today. We will take the viewer on a fascinating journey to discover this extraordinary writer.