The Age of AI and Mission Impossible

Déjà vu…

Heinrich: The movie is about AI going rogue, I got the feeling that your team was referring to anxieties about AI that Kissinger, Schmidt and Huttenlocher wrote about in The Age of AI.
Kris: Well, the researchers used sources from politics, military, economics and so on, talking to a lot of people, attending NATO briefings, reading books and articles like RAND papers.
Heinrich: So the script is an amalgam?
Kris: Common enough, that. Except that we used plot beats to ramp up the tension about AI.
Heinrich; Like the first plot beat where The Entity takes over control system of the Russian sub and uses its own weapons to destroy it. Others?
Kris: And then in the chase scenes where AI anticipates human movements and sends fake instructions diverting them from the targets.
Heinrich: So it’s a cinematic parable for the book that is a warning about how AI system spins out of the control of its creators and manipulates global systems.
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Fictional films can draw on elite policy discourses by offering models of future crises or ethical dilemmas that policymakers haven’t yet formalized. Blade Runner 2049 indirectly echoes 2016–2017 UN debates on lethal autonomous weapons and AI rights, without citing those reports. Seems like the research paid off for Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, which scores highly among critics and audiences.