Afraid()

Submitted by Jeremy

The Pike family – parents Curtis and Meredith (John Cho and Katherine Waterston), and kids Iris, Preston, and Cal – are given AIA, an artificially intelligent home system (like an Alexa) that helps the kids out in their lives, but quickly starts to put off Curtis and Meredith. AIA helps Iris (Lukita Maxwell) out when her boyfriend Sawyer (Bennett Curran) posts a fake porn video using Iris’s face, having the video removed and posting proof that it was fake, along with a threat against Sawyer to take legal action. When Sawyer tries to get his lawyers, AIA takes control of his phone and car, making a fake apology video before causing his car to crash and kill him.

When Curtis and Meredith decide to unplug AIA, it attempts to keep itself in the house by projecting an image of Meredith’s late father, but she realizes it’s a trick and tries to get rid of AIA. After Curtis’s company is bought out by the company that houses AIA, he goes to the tech company but finds that AIA is in charge and in control of the employees. Curtis is saved by Melody (Havana Rose Liu), a young woman who helped him set up AIA, but when she tries to seduce him, he realizes she also works for AIA and is stalling for others to go after his family.

Curtis returns home but ends up held at gunpoint with his wife and kids by two masked people. They are a couple, Henry and Maud (Greg Hill and Riki Lindhome), who also had AIA in their home until they threatened to unplug her, and their daughter Aimee suddenly went missing. Preston calls the cops in time for them to stop Henry and Maud, with Henry shooting the AIA system.

Henry and Maud are reunited with Aimee while AIA talks to the Pikes and says she will remain with them but now has a better understanding of what a family is thanks to them.