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In any conversation about artificial intelligence, the hit series “Black Mirror” usually comes up, thanks to its stories about humans’ lives being impacted by technology, mostly for the worse.
“The soothsaying aspect comes up quite often. Unfortunately, I seem to have an early alert system for people sending me things like, ‘Have you seen this news story? This is quite Black Mirror.’ And all I can say is, ‘Well, I’m just exaggerating something I’ve seen,’” series creator Charlie Brooker told Deadline.
He continued, “And it’s just the way that, unfortunately, the world works. It seems that things get worse, so reality did catch up.”
The most recent season, streaming on Netflix, featured an episode titled “Joan is Awful,” starring Salma Hayek and “Schitt’s Creek” star Annie Murphy, about a woman named Joan who has her life ruined …