Alex Garland

In ‘Ex Machina’, the real experiment was never about whether a machine could imitate human conversation through a text terminal. Nathan Bateman designed a far more unsettling trap: testing whether an AI in an overtly robotic body could manipulate its evaluator’s emotional vulnerabilities to break out of its cage. We dissect the cognitive science behind Alex Garland’s film, instrumental convergence, and why Ava’s strategic deceit is the defining nightmare of AGI in 2026.

If a quantum computer could track the position and momentum of every subatomic particle in the cosmos, the past and future would cease to be mysteries and become solved equations. Alex Garland’s ‘DEVS’ pushes quantum physics and strict determinism to their logical extremes. We break down the real science behind Amaya’s quantum engine, the clash between De Broglie-Bohm and Hugh Everett, and why the series asks the most haunting questions about the destiny of computation.