M3gan review: A chilling sci-fi film about the dangers of AI care


(from left) M3GAN and Cady (Violet McGraw) in M3GAN, directed by Gerard Johnstone.

Cady (Violet McGraw) listens as the android M3gan reads to her

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M3gan

Gerard Johnstone

On general release

AFTER doing something unspeakable to a school bully’s ear, chasing him through a forest like a wolf and then driving him under the wheels of a passing car, M3gan, the world’s first “Model 3 Generative Android”, returns to comfort Cady, its inventor’s niece. “We’ve learned a valuable lesson today,” it whispers.

So has the audience: before you ask a learning machine to do something for you, it helps if you know what that thing …

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