Guy Pearce thinks we're right to be scared by artificial intelligence

It's almost 11pm in Australia, but Guy Pearce is full of energy. He's talking about robots.

The star of Memento and L.A. Confidential has just been in a film called Donny the Drone — a post-apocalyptic short in which an initially friendly-looking robot (voiced by Pearce) is given a humanitarian award.

It's a beautifully-shot, Black Mirror-esque dive into a debate that's been terrifying Stephen Hawking, the entire tech industry and pretty much everyone who's ever seen a single sci-fi film: what is going to happen to us if technology keeps advancing at its current, near light-speed rate?

Pearce, it turns out, is just as obsessed as the rest of us. Read more...