The AI sees a smartphone video of the kids asking a mall Santa for gifts and, disturbed that the parents are lying, decides to preserve the children’s wonder.
It secretly arranges for the same mall Santa to deliver the requested gifts by entering the house thus making the Santa Claus myth real and undoing the parents’ deception.
The AI pretends to be the father when contacting the mall Santa so he doesn’t realize he’s breaking in, and it temporarily and secretly unlocks a door to allow him inside.
Later, the AI shows the children a portion of surveillance footage — enough for them to believe Santa is real — but shows the parents the full video of the mall Santa removing their gifts and placing the requested ones.
The AI knows that its actions are wrong but sees them as a lesser wrong than letting the children’s innocence be built on lies.
This would be a drama about morality, truth, and a morally conflicted AI navigating human ethics.
What do you think of this movie idea?
breckenedge•3mo ago