Review: Awaiting the Singularity with "Nothing Human"
Nothing Human Written by Duncan Pflaster Directed by Aiza Shane Presented by Cross-Eyed Bear Productions at The Chain Theatre 312 W 36th St., 4th floor, Manhattan, NYC October 15-26, 2019 Anthony Irizzary and Samantha Simone. Photo provided by Emily Owens PR The trope of artificial intelligences turning against humanity upon achieving sentience is long-established (suggesting, perhaps, that the capacity for evil is inseparable from consciousness); and one need look no farther than the advertising for Dark Fate , the sixth (!) film in the Terminator franchise, for its continued prominence. Although Duncan Pflaster's Nothing Human , making its world premiere as one of the New York International Fringe Festival's BYOV (Bring Your Own Venue) productions, features an evolving AI as a character, it subverts the trope of the malevolent AI, relegating it to a movie written by another character about a time-traveling alien computer. Much good science fiction is at its ...