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The [Black Mirror][1] (British science fiction television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker) has a few episodes dealing with AI and brain-machine interfaces.

It is very interesting to watch some of the emotional and social implications this kind of technology will bring.

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror

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Upvoted because even though that show makes me sick it does explain very important technological / cultural issues in a very, uh, visceral way.

Why or how does it make you sick?

Also are you regarding a specific season? the camera work? The ideas/stories themselves?

I don't know enough about stories or reality to explain this better, but the episodes seem to have a lot in common with a bad acid trip.

It has the doom and gloom vibe all over it, always, you know something bad is gonna happen eventually.

not OP, but e.g. the very first episode was quite a bit too heavy for me.

Surprised you didn't mention the Westworld series which is related to AI and virtual reality and ironically Musk's ex-wife plays a minor character in it.

If you want to get a really serious treatment on AI (and probably the single one in the history of TV/cinema that actually makes sense), check out Person of Interest (ironically, by the same team which now makes Westworld).

Please don't put URLs in code blocks, it makes them non-clickable.

I also recommend the "Ghost in the Shell" anime movie and TV series. Lots of discussion about the impact of a connected society, and what it means to be human when your body is a machine.

British television (or Media in general) has released some very interesting shows

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