It's Friday, April 17th, 2015, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indra Viscontas.

And I'm Kishore Hari. Each week, we bring you a new in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.

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At Inquiring Minds, we are big fans of movies that get the science right.

It's one of the best ways of communicating science.

And of course, we are in the business of making sure that our listeners understand the science

and can make good decisions about their own lives as a result of that. And if a movie gets you

there, then I'm all for it. So a few weeks ago, our producer and our guest host for this week, Rebecca Watson, went to see a movie called Ex Machina.

And they both loved it. They both came back and said, look, the science in this movie is actually really strong.

And it tackles a topic that is really interesting, which is artificial intelligence.

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