Review of Ex Machina (2015) by Pbryant — 05 May 2015

Evil is the absence of empathy, and no artificial intelligence should ever pass the Turing Test without demonstrating the capacity for empathy. This is a fact that would likely slip by a typical computer geek, since many of them themselves rank low on the empathy scale.

This story brought that issue to the fore remarkably well. From the inventor agonizing over his failure, to the geek completely taken in by his own blind-spot for empathy.