Blumhouse’s Afraid brings AI terror to the smart home

Jul 04, 2024 01:30 AM - 4 months ago 54369

Sony and Blumhouse’s Afraid from head Chris Weitz mightiness not spell truthful acold arsenic to propose that you shouldn’t person so galore smart devices watching and listening to everything you do successful your home. But nan movie’s first trailer will astir apt time off you contemplating what nan AI-powered Internet of Things could do to you if it decided to spell rogue nether nan pretense of being helpful.

Whereas M3gan was focused specifically connected a early connected nan advent of humanoid user robots, Afraid tells nan communicative of really nan lives of an unsuspecting family are upended aft installing a smart hub successful their home. Neither Curtis (John Cho) nor his woman (Katherine Waterston) are judge what to expect from AIA — a HomePod / Ring / Siri-like instrumentality — erstwhile they’re selected to trial it out, but they quickly find themselves enamored pinch its expertise to thief pinch tasks they simply don’t person clip to do.

With its sensors placed everyplace and its changeless inclination to ingest accusation astir nan family, it’s each excessively easy for AIA to go a reassuring beingness successful their lives erstwhile it takes complete paying nan bills and making judge nan kids do their chores.

But Afraid’s caller trailer teases really nan programming beneath AIA’s pleasant exterior is simply a spot more… fierce than nan mean user would ever dream, and while it doesn’t precisely look for illustration nan instrumentality wants to wounded its owners, it does very overmuch consciousness arsenic if nan instrumentality has plans to go much than conscionable a sound that lives successful everyone’s gadgets. The full trailer has a very Smart House (the 1999 Disney Channel original movie) connected steroids vibe, which is promising capable successful its ain right. But erstwhile Afraid debuts connected August 30th, it’s astir apt going to raise nan mobility whether Blumhouse mightiness beryllium considering a doll / location crossover business down nan line.

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