This moral gray area is explored through ex-special forces soldier Joshua (played by Tenet’s John David Washington) who’s tasked with finding the architect of the AI and destroying the new super weapon they’ve created. And I really liked the idea that AI or the dilemma of this film is that they 100% feel they're human.' 'I think in a lot of these kinds of movies, the robot or AI is a little bit cold, not quite like us. 'I think if we were doing anything different, it was trying to humanize them,' he explains. His approach then was to come at the topic from a slightly different tack.
The fall-out sees humanity at war with AI – or the 'simulants' – who have mostly moved to Asia where they’ve not yet been outlawed and their mysterious creator is in hiding.Įdwards is well aware that exploring artificial intelligence in cinema is a well-trodden path, and one that’s been occupied too by stone-cold genre classics like Terminator and Blade Runner.
The film imagines an alternate reality where humans accepted AI into their lives decades ago, only to watch it grow into something much more sophisticated until the unthinkable happens and a nuclear bomb is dropped. That kernel of an idea grew into The Creator, an epic tale of what it means to be human amid the growth of artificial intelligence.
