Fans left unable to sleep after watching ‘terrifying’ killer robots documentary on Netflix

Fans and regular viewers alike stumble upon “Unknown: Killer Robots,” the chilling latest installment of Netflix’s new documentary series “Unknown” – and discover they can’t remain ignorant of what they’ve just learned.

“I can only conclude that we created and unleashed a psychopathic demigod on the world,” one viewer tweeted about the streamer’s in-depth look at AI’s deadly potential and the military arms race for more autonomous weapons of war.

‘What have we done?’

Everyone from refugee groups serving war-torn countries to the same scientific experts who appear in “Killer Robots” themselves have expressed concern over the documentary’s alarming revelations.

In the words of one fan, the Netflix exposure is “fascinating, thought-provoking, and the stuff of nightmares.”

Everyone from refugee groups serving war-torn countries to the same scientific experts who appeared in Netflix’s “Killer Robots” have expressed concern over the doc’s dark revelations.

A non-profit organization dedicated to helping refugees from the Taliban and the war in Afghanistan, Afghans for a better futurepraised the film as “a groundbreaking documentary about the rise of AI-powered robots on the battlefield.”

But the group couldn’t help but brood over the film’s darker implications.

AI is definitely on its way to changing our lives noted the NGO on Twitter. “But what about when it is used in war, in countries like Afghanistan or Somalia?

Even more surprising is that British pharmacologist Sean Ekins, an expert in AI-powered computational toxicology who appears in “Killer Robots,”barely slept since thenhe told the filmmakers about his experience with these advanced threats.

The field of computational toxicology uses huge computer networks to detect patterns and predict new biological interactions between living things and chemicals using large sets.

Ekins’ work usually involves using this biochemical modeling of AI to come up with new life-saving drugs, but before giving a speech about the dangers of AI, we ran a test that soon prompted him to the White House.

“We asked the machine, instead of moving away from toxicity, to move into toxicity, and that’s it,” Ekins told the filmmakers. “We thought it would fail.”

Instead, Ekins was shocked to say, “The computer did the job. It ran by generating thousands of molecules – and all we had to do was press ‘go’.”

Powered by nothing more than a six-year-old Apple computer, their AI had created 40,000 new ideas for chemical weapon molecules overnight. Many of them, Ekins said, were more lethal than lethal nerve agents VX gas and Novichok.

“There’s a dark side to AI that I never thought I’d visit,” Ekins said.

Netflix’s ‘Unknown: Killer Robots’ (still above) was directed by Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Jesse Sweet whose work also includes Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain

A non-profit organization dedicated to helping refugees, Afghans For A Better Tomorrow, hailed the film as “a groundbreaking documentary about the rise of AI-powered robots on the battlefield.”

And thanks to the testimonials of these experts, fans of Netflix’s Unknown series find themselves on that dark side.

One fan tweeted “Unknown: Killer Robots on Netflix is ​​terrifying” and another reviewer described the documentary as ‘Black Mirror meets Terminator’ and ‘nightmare fuel.’

“Terminator is starting to feel real,” another fan tweeted along with the trailer of the movie.

Or, in the words of one Twitter user, also referring to the same dystopian sci-fi action franchise: “Little Baby Skynet is growing up fast!”