Unknown: Killer Robots

Unknown: Killer Robots (2023) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM — sixty-eight minutes on what happens once a machine, not a person, decides whether someone lives or dies.

Director Jesse Sweet walks through labs, test ranges and briefing rooms where engineers and the military teach algorithms to spot a target and fire. Drones that pick out the enemy on their own. Systems trusted to act in a fraction of a second. The scientists argue on camera: some see a way to keep soldiers out of harm, others warn that the line between a weapon and a killer with no conscience has nearly vanished.

Part of Netflix's Unknown anthology, the film skips scare tactics and leans on sober questions it refuses to answer for you. A good pick if tech and ethics interest you more than Hollywood robots. Stream Unknown: Killer Robots (2023) online on iFILM.