Video: Westworld has given us a terrifying look at what might happen if humanoid robots powered by highly sophisticated AI suddenly became self-aware and very, very pissed off. Clever short film AI Therapy imagines instead future technology that becomes self-aware… and very, very self-involved.
A weary therapist meets with her ne’er-do-well rich-kid robot patient. Image: Vimeo
The film – directed by Chris Vernon and Emerald Fennell – is just over a minute long, but it feels like a tease for a wryly funny sitcom we’d 100 per cent want to watch.