Theme
Competition Program
Duration
85min.
Display location
Location hall
Grand hall
Director
Maxim Pozdorovkin
Producers
Joe Bender
Production
Third Party Films
Rights
Third Party Films
Country
USA, 2018
When a robot kills a human, who takes the blame? This eerie, eye-opening work of science nonfiction uses incidents in which robots have caused the deaths of humans—from a Volkswagen factory in Germany to a bomb-carrying police droid in Dallas—as a window into global automation and its consequences. Though they are typically treated as freak anomalies, each case raises questions of accountability, legality and morality. Exploring the provocative views of engineers, journalists and philosophers, the film goes beyond sensational deaths to examine more subtle but pervasive ways that robots pose a threat to humanity.