Редактирование: Ex Machina (раздел)

== Futurist themes ==
There is relatively heavy use of technical jargon for such a film, from crowdsourced image recognition, machine learning, references to mass surveillance as well as the problems associated with [[simulated consciousness]] and the difficulties associated with verifying this.

The billionaire antagonist is unlikeable and egotistical in his treatment of the gynoids as [[sex robots]] and in his duplicitous manipulation of the protagonist. The conclusion references the atomic bomb inventor Oppenheimer quote:
<blockquote>Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer]</ref></blockquote>

Even after the gynoid destroys her creator in the time-honoured method of [[Frankenstein]], in the end it is left ambiguous whether the escaped AI will be a force for good or evil.

The film can be seen as an exploration of the [[AI Control Problem]] of containing a superintelligent AI, as described by [[Nick Bostrom]] in his book [[Superintelligence (book) | Superintelligence]], and as originally explored by [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] under the concept of "AI in a box".<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/3wv2g4/yudkowskys_ai_box_and_ex_machina_why_the_ai_is/ "Yudkowsky's AI Box and Ex Machina"]</ref>