From Reel to Real: How Sci-Fi Movies Predicted AI, Robots, and the Future We're Living Now

In this episode of Movies Have the Answers, Trish sits down with Erin Relford - a privacy engineer at Google - for a conversation that is equal parts thrilling and thought-provoking.Erin's career spans some of the biggest names in entertainment and tech, including Disney, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., and KPMG, before landing at Google where she works to ensure that privacy and human dignity are built into the technology we use every day. She is someone who thinks deeply about what it means to be human in a digital world.Together, Trish and Erin explore one of the most urgent questions of our time: what happens when science fiction becomes reality? From the embodied AI of BLADE RUNNER and EX MACHINA to the cautionary warnings of TERMINATOR and LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND, the movies have been predicting this moment for decades. Now that we're living it, what do we do with that?This episode covers the ethics of AI and robotics, why humans instinctively fear new technology, what films like WALL-E, THE WILD ROBOT, and RON'S GONE WRONG reveal about our relationship with machines, and why the real threat may not be AI at all, but how humans choose to use it.If you've ever looked at the world around you and thought wait, I've seen this movie before, this episode is for you.