Director: Gavin Rothery | 2020
The question of ethics when developing conscious artificial intelligence has always been a major theme in movies about AI. Archive tells the story of a scientist who keeps developing artificial intelligence that will have full capacity, in the hopes of installing his wife’s consciousness into it. He gets frequent visits from the supervising authority who want to shut his project down. His latest AI is terrified by the idea of losing its own identity in favor of his wife’s. But the greatest twist is far more shocking than this.