This is the trailer to the movie TAU. It can be found on Netflix and is about a woman who is kidnapped and kept in a smart home that is controlled by TAU. I found this particularly interesting because it features sentient AI. Without spoiling the movie too much, the protagonist attempts to escape her attacker by building a relationship with TAU. Her goal is to get it to act against its programmer and grant her freedom. She ends up accomplishing this task, but there are a lot of significant twists and turns along the way.

This movie looks at technology in a unique way. We know that TAU is not a robot because it does not follow Asimov’s Laws.

(The laws are listed below from this link)

• Law One – “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
• Law Two – “A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.”
• Law Three – “A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.”

There have been many works of science fiction that look at the future of A.I., and the impact of having technology that can “think” and act on its own. I believe that we will have sentient A.I. in the near future, and it will become an even more prevalent discussion around the laws needed to prevent programmers from creating technology that they cannot truly control. The programmer in TAU believed he had control over TAU; he was very wrong.