A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) — The Heart

A.I. Artificial Intelligence began as a Stanley Kubrick project before Steven Spielberg inherited and completed the film after Kubrick’s death. The result is one of Spielberg’s most emotional, divisive, and philosophically ambitious works. In this episode of Spielberg Reloaded, we explore the story of David, a robot child programmed to love his human mother forever, and the devastating consequences of creating artificial intelligence capable of emotional attachment. We discuss Haley Joel Osment’s performance, Kubrick’s influence, the film’s Pinocchio parallels, futuristic worldbuilding, and why A.I. may ultimately be Spielberg’s most heartbreaking film about longing, humanity, and the need to be loved.

A.I. was used to help with narration and creative elements of our scripts.