We Secretly Want A.I. To Take Over

For fifty years, Colossus: The Forbin Project was dismissed as science fiction. Watch it now and you'll think twice about that. It's a Cold War paranoia film about two supercomputers that take control of the world's nuclear defence systems to stop humanity destroying itself. We prayed it was fiction. But here's the thing. The killer punchline isn't that the film was right. It's how much we *want* it to be right. Because a machine that looks at the human race without ego, without shareholders to please, without voters to win over, and decides we can't be trusted to govern ourselves... that's difficult to argue against. This week on Moviedrome Redux, we look at Joseph Sargent's quietly devastating 1970 cult classic. The film that the man-versus-machine genre has been trying to answer ever since. And failing. We also ask the question Stanislav Petrov answered in 1983, that the people currently building the real-life version of Colossus may have already answered for us. #ColossusTheForbinProject #aivideo #ww3 #MoviedromeRedux #ScienceFiction #Colossus1970