Decades of movies that explore the potential of machine consciousness'Blade Runner; Ex Machina; I, Robot; and many others'have tended to treat the arrival of said consciousness as a matter of course. Theirs are worlds in which society is able to sympathize with, and even socially accept, a true artificial intelligence. Recognizing AI's presence as inevitable, of course, does not make it less anxiety inducing, either in fiction or in reality. Such technology reveals deeply unsettled feelings about its possible intrusions into people's lives, including the more existential fear that machines could render humanity useless. The Apple TV+ sci-fi series Murderbot tests that cultural assumption with a quirky conceit: It imagines a future in which an artificial-intelligence program wouldn't want anything to do with humans at all. The show, based on a novella by the author Martha Wells, follows a snarky private-security cyborg (played by Alexander Skarsgard) assigned to protect a group of...
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