The Criterion Collection will broadcast more than a dozen historical and contemporary films that foreshadow the developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its effects on humanity on the independent streaming platform, Criterion Channel. The company, which was founded in 1984 and features “significant classic and contemporary films from around the world”, will release the AI ​​tribute from July 1.

“The film collection comes at a time when artificial intelligence is advancing “from the realm of science fiction into everyday life“, says the company.

Concerns about its impact on humanity are intensifying due to recent developments in genetic Artificial Intelligence, such as the release of the ChatGPT tool by the American research laboratory OpenAI.

US Senator Chuck Schumer recently outlined a new effort to regulate AI-related issues, and President Joe Biden recently met with AI developers in San Francisco to discuss risk management.

“The strange idea of ​​Artificial Intelligence has inspired some of the most imaginative films ever made, raising philosophical questions about the possibilities and dangers of technology, the relationship between the mechanical and the biological, and the very essence of what makes us human.“, says the company in a statement.

Among others included in the collection are the film AI Artificial Intelligence starring Haley Joel Osment as a prototype android programmed to experience love in a post-apocalyptic 22nd century climate-change-ridden future and the animated film 1995’s Ghost in the Shell, based on a manga of the same title about a near-future world where human brains can be placed inside mechanical shells in a plot that explores the definitions of human consciousness.