Alicia&I
2 Writers
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Elon Musk says in 5 years our minds will be neurally connected to artificial intelligence. It's the biggest decision any of us will have to make. Will you keep being a human? Or willingly become a cyborg? A dark comedy with a touch of sci-fi. Alicia&I brings AI to the bedroom. It’s a small-scale, raw, dystopian love story in the spirit of Black Mirror, told with the mordant humor and quick-witted dialogue of Fleabag. A tv series of 30-minute episodes set in near-future London, in the tech-addled society we know and love to hate, where one little chip is about to make a huge difference. A simple, yet tragic tension drives our story. Alicia and Keith almost never agree. It’s how they always kept the flame alive. They could agree on one thing, though. Their love — and the kinky shit — would conquer all. But now, thanks to her AI chip, Alicia is going somewhere Keith can’t fathom. And on the way there, our couple must confront a painful question: Can soulmates lose their mojo? As we deal with the fallout of the answer, we discover this is a story about whether we can transform as a species without first knowing what it means to be human. This isn’t another show about the dangers of AI. It’s about human evolution. Over the last couple of centuries, we have sacrificed so much and so often on the altars of Progress. We believed the more we gave to it, the brighter our future would be. Technology would change, fix, improve anything and everything. Should we have foreseen that placing the things we hold dearest in the hands of a few kids in $1000 hoodies would backfire? Well, duh. Now, as we realise the irrevocable harm that industry has unleashed on the planet; as we see our democracies torn apart by social media, generations hooked on shiny new gadgets, we begin to wonder: How dumb are we? Most of us shrug and think: “Technology. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it.” We’re at a fork in the road. Do we keep feeding the machine in hopes of creating a better world? Or do we heed the call for a more sustainable, natural lifestyle? And what happens when a couple find themselves at this very crossroads, being pulled in two very different directions?