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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

From Years and Years to Black Mirror: the best TV prophecies for how AI will end us all

Black Mirror.
The daddy of dystopia … Black Mirror. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy

There aren’t many television shows yet about how AI affects our daily lives. After all, there isn’t much dramatic potential in shows about creatively flaccid people using ChatGPT to write woeful little Facebook updates. But that is not to say we haven’t come close.

For years, fiction about AI tended to be exclusively about killer robots, but some shows have taken a more nuanced look at how AI will shape our lives over the next few years. Here are the best of them.

8. Humans

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