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: Discussing the ethical obligations of creators toward sentient machines and the "AI-box" thought experiment, which warns about the dangers of containing a superintelligent entity.

If you are interested in the "paper" behind the movie itself, writer-director Alex Garland used a unique outlining method to draft the script: Ex MachinaHD

Ex Machina: Testing Machines for Consciousness - PhilArchive : Discussing the ethical obligations of creators toward

: For fans, A24 has released a dedicated Screenplay Book that includes the full script, concept art, and essays. Ex MachinaHD

: As he writes each scene, he deletes the corresponding beat from his list until the entire page is blank and the first draft is finished.

: He starts by writing a single page of one-line story beats.