Person of Interest (television series)

Person of Interest. Television series, Jonathan Nolan, creator. CBS 2011-2016.[1] Kilter Films, Bad Robot, Warner Bros (production); see IMDb for details.[2]

Thriller featuring an AI. In one user-written plot summary for the series, by "Jones,"

A billionaire software-genius named Harold Finch creates a Machine for the government that is designed to detect acts of terror before they can happen, by monitoring the entire world through every cell-phone, email and surveillance camera. Finch discovered that the machine sees everything, potential terrorist acts and violent crimes that involve ordinary people. When the government considered violent crimes between normal people "irrelevant", Finch built a back door into the system that gives him the social security number of a person involved in a future violent crime so he could act. Partnered with John Reese, an ex-CIA agent, the two work in secret to prevent violent crimes before they can happen. Eventually their activities lead to being hunted by the New York Police Department, CIA Agents in pursuit of Reese who was listed as dead, a computer hacker named Root who wants access to the Machine, and government officials who want to keep all knowledge of the Machine a complete secret.

See IMDb for other plot summaries and a long synopsis; at least as of 7 October 2021, at link.[3] For an appreciative discussion, see Melanie McFarland's "'Person of Interest' comes to an end, but the technology central to the story will keep evolving," GeekWire for 20 June 2016, at link as of 7 October 2021.[4]

See for life inside a metaphorical vast mechanism with high-tech communications, and for AI, surveillance, and computer threat. Cf. and contrast such works as Foster's "The Machine Stops," THE CIRCLE (film); for crime prediction, cf. and contrast MINORITY REPORT.

RDE, finishing, 7Oct21