The best sci-fi confrontation with the challenge posed by AI and robots that I know of.
"Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you."
And cheaper.
And that's the problem.
Better than Us
The story is driven by the existence of a bot who is not programmed with Asimov's three laws, and who can and does kill humans.
"The world's only killer bot," she is called in one episode.
But the social import of the rise of the robots lies in this, that there is a plot afoot to use robots as a significantly cheaper alternative to human workers, but not only as menial laborers: doctors, also, for example.
No limit, in principle.
Humans are to be phased out through a program of very cushy early retirement, easily financed by the savings obtained by using robots in their stead.
And future humans?
Not a word about that, yet.
Haven't finished the series.
Only 3 episodes in and there are 16.
BTW, it stars Estonian Kirill Kyaro (or Kirill Käro), previously known for "The Sniffer", also available on Netflix.
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