As humanity grapples with artificial intelligence’s exponential pace of expansion, it seems fitting to rewatch a film that dealt with these formerly sci-fi concepts at the very precipice of their introduction into the real world. Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 classic was chillingly prescient in its introduction of HAL 9000, whose extent of intelligence is slowly revealed to the astronauts aboard the Discovery. As we increasingly interact with HAL’s great-great-grandchild, ChatGPT, maybe Kubrick’s vision will be a good refresher of what a human can offer in terms of existential understanding. – Lina Fisher
