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uk Tuesday 02 January 2018 Advertisement The Machine: director interview Ian Douglas talks to Caradog James, the director, and Caity Lotz, star of a new British film, The Machine, that explores the consequences of sentient artificial intelligence The Machine The Machine Ian Douglas By Ian Douglas 7:00AM GMT 21 Mar 2014 Follow Caity Lotz is an artificial intelligence in the process of coming alive.
 There are guns and disasters throughout her turn in new release The Machine, yet she’s optimistic about a future where the robots live among us.
 "I think artificial intelligence is not just possible, but inevitable.
 I don’t think there will be robots like my character straight away, but rather humans will slowly start to merge with computers and technology cyborg style," she says.
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 The conflict between this new intelligence and the military urge to exploit it are what gives the film its tension, but Lotz and Caradog James, director and writer, agree that the real life version of events is likely to be more peaceful.
 "I spent almost a year reading every book that I could on artificial intelligence, robotics, I even struggled through a couple of books on quantum mechanics," admits James.
 "All of which was groundwork for what was the key to the story which was a meeting with a scientist who was actually building a mind machine.