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Best AI Films, Ranked by IQ Score
The films that take artificial intelligence as actual philosophical material, not as action setting. Ranked.
AI cinema is increasingly relevant, and increasingly canonical. The works on this list treat artificial intelligence as actual philosophical material (consciousness, personhood, the moral architecture of AI-human relationships) rather than as setting decoration for action plots.
Anchor picks: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968), HAL 9000 is the canonical screen AI. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017). Her (Jonze, 2013). Ex Machina (Garland, 2014). After Yang (Kogonada, 2021).
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