In an era that is increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, Mercy asks a provocative question: What happens when technology becomes judge, jury, and executioner? For Rebecca Ferguson, who plays an AI judge in the upcoming sci-fi thriller, the film feels unsettlingly close to reality.
Rebecca Ferguson On Playing An AI Judge In Mercy
“Playing Judge Maddox, an AI who is on the cusp of human understanding — so near to consciousness and yet light years away from being human — brings up many interesting questions,” Ferguson says. “We expect accuracy from technology, but more and more we need to question what the online world is telling us.”
Set in a near-future premise where human courts have been replaced by an AI-run justice system, the movie Mercy unfolds almost entirely within a high-stakes trial. Evidence is pulled not from witnesses or lawyers, but from a unique and vast digital archive the film calls the ‘LA Municipal Cloud’ — a system that decisively stores everything from surveillance footage to personal device recordings.
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Rebecca Ferguson Depicts AI As A Mere Tool To Aid Humans
For Rebecca Ferguson, the role in Mercy wasn’t about playing a machine, but exploring the illusion of objectivity that technology often promises to mankind. Her AI judge’s character is designed to be neutral, mostly data-driven, and emotionless — yet the film slowly challenges the idea of whether such purity can truly exist.
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