As an actor and a writer, Rashida Jones has spent a lot of time thinking about . AI is also front and center in her new series for Apple TV+. “My feeling today — because it changes every day — is it’s here and there’s no going back.
There’s an inevitability that we have to accept,” Jones said. “We need some kind of collective ethical parameters about how we use this because it is pretty scary..
. It's out of our control at this point.” In 'Sunny," Jones plays Suzie, an expat in Japan whose husband Masa and son Zen are missing after a plane crash.
She is gifted named Sunny as a condolence gift from Masa's employer. Suzie is shocked to discover Masa worked in robotics and programmed Sunny specifically with her in mind. She thought he worked in refrigeration technology.
With Sunny at her side, Suzie begins looking into who Masa really was, compared to who she thought he was. As she delves further into the mystery, Suzie discovers that in the wrong hands, the code to creating robots like Sunny can be dangerous. Judy Ongg, annie the clumsy and Jun Kunimura also co-star.
Katie Robbins adapted the series for TV from the novel “The Dark Manual” by Colin O’Sullivan. She says that while there's an optimism to the series from the connection Suzie feels to Sunny, it's also a cautionary tale. “What AI does in the course of this show, is help people who are turning inward and who have trouble connecting with others.
It's beautiful," said Robbins. "But because it is.