Andrew Glester reviews the film Mercy , directed by Timur Bekmambetov

Feeding the algorithm In Mercy , Chris Pratt’s character has 90 minutes to change an AI system’s assessment of his guilt. (Courtesy: Justin Lubin/Sony Pictures Releasing International/Shutterstock)"> Feeding the algorithm In Mercy , Chris Pratt’s character has 90 minutes to change an AI system’s assessment of his guilt. (Courtesy: Justin Lubin/Sony Pictures Releasing International/Shutterstock)

Picture a room where every photon bouncing off a doorbell camera, every acoustic reflection captured by a passing delivery drone, and every drop of ambient thermal noise is fed directly into a Bayesian inference engine.…