A positive angle on AI in film? I wouldn't have believed it unless I was writing it myself. This Friday (January 23), the new Amazon MGM studios movie Mercy is released in theaters, following detective Chris (Chris Pratt) after his imprisonment in an AI-generated courtroom for a murder he didn't commit.
Its messaging on whether AI is a good or bad thing in society is extremely ambivalent, instead asking us to assess whether both technology and humans are capable of making mistakes. For an industry that's embroiled in a divisive battle over how to use it, it's the safest direction to take.
