Murderbot's Creators on Letting AI Be the Good Guy for Once

It’s a scary situation to contemplate, especially the part about being on an isolated planet with a powerful AI that has guns tucked into its arms. In a recent chat with io9 ahead of Murderbot‘s debut, creators, writers, directors, and executive producers Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz said there’s certainly optimism to be taken away from this story—and quite a bit of humor to go with that. “To some degree we were looking at this as a post-dystopian world, meaning like, yes, there’s a dystopia, corporations are pretty much running the show,” Paul Weitz said. In this case, there’s Murderbot’s sense of humor. The idea that a sense of humor is evidence of personhood and individuality and is going to exist in various manifestations.