While Garland’s haunting film is mesmerizing as a mystery/horror story, then, it falls down in its effort to raise larger questions about how artificial intelligence, once unleashed, can be hard to put back in the bottle. “We have become Death, the shatterer of Worlds,” muses Caleb to Nathan early on in the film, quoting A Bomb co-inventor Robert Oppenheimer’s famous channeling of a line from the Bhagavad Gita.
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