Spielberg’s 2001 film *A.I.* now reads like a warning about human-machine love
adariostrange · x · 2026-07-29
Spielberg’s A.I. looks newly relevant in the age of AI
A MARS Magazine essay argues that Spielberg’s 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence now feels more relevant than ever—not because it predicted ChatGPT, but because it anticipated the emotional and ethical questions around human relationships with machines.
- The movie began as Stanley Kubrick’s long-running project, later completed by Spielberg.
- Its roots trace back to Brian Aldiss’s 1969 short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long.
- The story centers on a robotic child, David, in a dystopian future where reproduction is tightly controlled.
- The author frames the film as a warning about what it means to be loved, and about how people define what is “real.”
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