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Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker says tech isn’t our problem - it’s us

Channels with Peter Kafka

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The Future of AI

"I don't know that it's at the point where it could write an even servicing, not an even, not even a vomit draft," he says of his AI. "It came up with things that were fairly generic because they were what a little bit of emulation software's idea of a black mirror story is." He was inspired by this episode of the Twilight Zone called It's a Good Life which still holds up today as absolutely chilling and terrifying.

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