AI. Good or bad? The answer is...Yes! It may help cure all sorts of pediatric cancer. It may allow you affordable college education from any university in the world (all from your own living room). It may easily identify your Golden Retriever's ailment. It, also, may make the distribution and creation of child porn a lot easier. It will help your government (aka Big Brother) to control your bank accounts and spending habits. It may also replace your need for a woman, or a man, and provide you something that won't talk back or report you for sexual harassment. All will be done under the guise of making our world a better place. Our feature today is 2025's "The Correction Unit," directed by Derry Shillitto. This film is from the U.K.
Miserable teenagers...juvenile delinquents. All of the ones in this film are hopeless cases, and chronic offenders. Gangsters. Drug pushers and addicts. Thieves. Now a bunch of them have been transferred from a youth prison to a special facility called nTrac. nTrac? Yep, AI will be used to rehab all of these kids in three months. Three months? Yep, that is what the government contract calls for. We meet Shawn (Sonny Middleton), who is from a bad neighborhood and had to fight to protect his disabled mom and worthless brother. Now he's at nTrac. His mate, the tough Tish (Elleese Bradshaw) is there with him and is associated with numerous pushers. Through Virtual Reality (VR) and AI, they all have been assessed, evaluated, and a treatment plan has been personalized. Yvonne (Kirsty Smedley) seems to head the operation and her motives are pure and personal.
Some neat meditation devices allow the kids to experience nature and pleasant surroundings. Uh oh. The engineers on this project are worried. They are forbidden access to the inmates/patients. AI is the only counselor/doctor allowed to work on the teens. Short term success can't be denied...short term. The kids seem to be responding, for the most part. Now, how to make it permanent. Clones, mind control chips (think Elon Musk's Trans-humanism), and certain punishment. Now the kids are being turned into something other than who they were. Also, nTrac needs to show results in 90 days, and if the kids aren't improving that fast...well, the technicians are told to rush it. Yvonne offers objections and she is taken care of.
Just what will nTrac produce after 90 days? Will the teens in the program keep their humanity? If an AI machine is given total control, what will it consider "cured" or "improved"? We saw this in "A Clockwork Orange," but that did not have the use of AI. The subliminal tactics are present in both these films, though modern AI has made them easier to deliver. For a scary look at how "wonderful" AI can be for at risk teens, see "The Correction Unit."
