TIFF 2018 · HBO Max · Feature Documentary

The Truth About Killer Robots

A blackly comic, philosophical documentary about the rise of automation and the moment when machines began to kill people — sometimes by accident, sometimes by design.

Synopsis ·

An investigation into a string of deaths caused by robots and automated systems — a Volkswagen factory worker, a Tesla driver, a man killed by a bomb-defusing robot in Dallas — and what those deaths reveal about how we have already handed our agency to machines.

Narrated by Kodomoroid, a Japanese android. Hailed by The Guardian as "the year's most terrifying documentary" and called "a terrifying work of science nonfiction."

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In the press

What they said.

"The year's most terrifying documentary."

The Guardian · Nov 2018 →

"Intriguing, carefully reasoned."

The Hollywood Reporter · TIFF 2018 →

"A cautionary tale about a world automating beyond control."

HBO Documentaries · 2018 →

"A vivid, essential entry into the AI debate."

Cinema Scope · TIFF 2018 →

"On the dangers we have already handed to machines."

Science & Film · MoMI 2018 →

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