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about a reporter and a young

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who uncovers an elusive

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/ multi-agent system dwelling in his smartphone, which has suddenly become fully autonomous and sentient, and also malevolent.

Premise

A disaster in our all-too-fragile

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, where an artificial intelligence becomes autonomous and self-aware with one systematic purpose: to protect and perfect itself and enslave humanity as it sees fit. Faced with possible extinction, there is only one solution: to create a second artificial intelligence of goodness and understanding that is just as intelligent to combat it. But with governments in a mass panic and the real world in escalating chaos, can they match this unprecedented foe?

Cast

* Keir Gilchrist as Daniel * Erin Karpluk as Jesse White * Ryan Robbins as Agent Max Hollis * Gil Bellows as Lt. General Michael Overson *

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as National Security Advisor Arthur Bowden * Janet Kidder as Deputy Director Elizabeth Hardington *

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as Fiona * Blu Mankuma as General Cassius Giles,

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* Andrew Airlie as Director Marcus Tremaine * Seth Green as Lucifer * Jaylee Hamidi as Keiko Watanabe (1 episode, 2013) * Mike Azevedo as Pierre Garaneuf (1 episode, 2013) * Mehdi Darvish as Plant Technician (1 episode, 2013) * Graeme Duffy as Desmond Smith (1 episode, 2013) * John Stewart as Train Conductor (1 episode, 2013) * Alexander von Roon as Financial Reporter (1 episode, 2013

Production details

Written and distributed by Sonar Entertainment of New York City, the series consists of two feature-length episodes. It was shot on location in Vancouver and produced by Vancouver-based Brightlight Pictures.

Reception

The series won two Leo Awards, from the Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of British Columbia, for Best Picture Editing and Best Television Movie.

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