What Ex Machina got right and wrong about AI, 10 years later

Get the Full StoryAs the 10th anniversary of Alex Garland s Oscar-winning techno-thriller approaches, here s a look back at how prescient the film Ex Machina ended up being. So far.

Before media outlets began comparing OpenAI s Sam Altman with the father of the atomic bomb, and before Amazon s Jeff Bezos got jacked, we had Nathan Bateman, the iron-pumping, AI-developing tech broligarch played by Oscar Isaac in the 2015 film Ex Machina.

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