The Solid of Companion on the Horrors and Cuteness of AI Robots

In tech thriller Companion, the proper girlfriend breaks free from her programming. Iris (Yellowjackets‘ Sophie Thatcher) is the AI robotic companion to Josh (The Boys‘ Jack Quaid); over a vacation weekend with pals, she mysteriously glitches out of her position.

io9 sat down with Harvey Guillén (What We Do within the Shadows), Lukas Gage (Smile 2), and Megan Suri (It Lives Inside) to speak in regards to the very actual future wherein companion robots is perhaps normalized like within the movie. “They exist proper now,” Guillen and Suri exclaimed about present real-world prototypes just like the Tesla Bot.

“Possibly not as practical of an extent that it looks like on this film,” Suri added. Her character, Kat, is probably the most apprehensive of Sophie Thatcher’s Iris—even earlier than the robotic begins to malfunction.

The trio play witness to Iris gaining management of her programming, which if sci-fi tales are any indication will result in sure hazard. “It’s so scary,” Gage mentioned once we described the potential for cute characters in theme parks being launched into the surroundings as entertaining meet and greets. “It’s scary and it’s terrifying,” Suri added.

“It’s thrilling however terrifying generally,” Guillén admitted, and Gage piped in, “The Tesla bots.”

“These issues are simply terrifying.” Suri concurred, and Gage added, “Yeah, they’re simply… I may even have a look at these.”

We identified that at the very least the robots we’ve seen at theme parks have been cute and non-threatening, just like the Star Wars droids at Galaxy’s Edge. We additionally talked about that we’d be okay if Guillén’s beloved Perrito from the Shrek Universe’s Puss in Boots: The Final Want grew to become a robotic canine roaming DreamWorks Land at Common Studios Florida—one thing the actors all agreed can be enjoyable (somewhat than scary) to see.

Companion is out now in theaters.

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