Artificial Justice

Artificial Justice (Justicia artificial, 2024) is a Spanish sci-fi thriller you can watch online on iFILM, set just a few years from now. A government plan would hand criminal sentencing to an AI system, sold to the public as a way to make justice faster and free of politics.

Judge Carmen Costa, played by Verónica Echegui, is brought in to evaluate the software. What begins as a dry technical review turns lethal the moment the program's creator is found dead. Carmen quickly grasps that her own life is on the line, and that powerful figures at the top of the State want the reform pushed through no matter the cost. Director Simón Casal keeps the focus on a very current fear — handing human verdicts to a machine — instead of glossy futurism. Alberto Ammann and Tamar Novas round out the cast. Stream Artificial Justice (2024) online on iFILM.