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Eric Boehm

Review: Tron: Ares Reminds Us That Artificial Intelligence Is Not the Enemy

Will a hyperadvanced AI be a danger to humanity? That's nothing compared to the threat posed by military contractors.

That's the implicit conclusion of Tron: Ares, the third installment in the series that began with 1982's Tron. This threequel inverts the previous films' formula: Rather than humans trying to enter a digital world, Ares tells of an AI (Jared Leto) from inside "the Grid" finding its way into meatspace. It's a sci-fi spin on a fairy tale formula quite familiar to Disney, which made all three of the Tron films. The AI wants to be a real boy.

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