The Truth About Killer Robots

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When a robot kills a human, who takes the blame? The Truth About Killer Robots explores this question, as well as many other practical and ethical matters that humans face as we become more dependent on robots than ever before. An eerie, eye-opening work of science nonfiction, this 83-minute documentary from director Maxim Pozdorovkin (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer) charts incidents in which robots caused the deaths of humans—in an automated Volkswagen factory, in a self-driving Tesla vehicle, and by a bomb-carrying droid used by Dallas police—considering the issues that these cases, typically treated as freak anomalies, raise in terms of accountability and morality. Highlighting the provocative views of engineers, journalists and philosophers, and narrated by a lifelike Japanese android Kodomoroid, the film goes beyond the sensational deaths to examine more subtle but pervasive ways that robots pose a threat to society, challenging us to question what a future living amongst these non-human entities could mean for humankind as we know it.