back in a moment. >> rose: alex garland is here, writer and director. his novel "the beach" was turned into a movie starring leonardo dicaprio, he wrote 28 days late around never let me go. he is now making his directorial debut with "ex machina" about a break through in experiment with artificial intelligence. his job is to evaluate the human qualities of a machine named ava. here's the trailer. >> you are the dead center of the greatest scientific ex experiment in the history of man. >> i know. how do you feel about it? she's amazing. every cell phone has a microphone camera and a means to transmitt data. so i turned on every microphone and camera across the planet and redirected the data. >> my competitors thought search engines were a map of what people were thinking but actually they were a map of how people were thinking. >> did you know they're here to test you? >> you're wrong. about what? you shouldn't listen to anything he says. >> does ava actually like you or is she just pretending to like you? >> manipulation, sex wall. you're attracted to

charlie: i'm pleased to have alex garland at this table for the first time. welcome. u. charlie: congratulations on all you have done and on this film. tell me your interest, your development of interest in this before it became a film. alex: i'm in my mid-40's. my life has kept pace with the development of home computers. it probably started when i was a kid, 12 years old and getting a sense that this thing in the living room was somehow alive or had qualities it did not have, but you get this funny electric sense from a machine. then when i was older, starting to read about the issues of artificial intelligence and the kind of progress being made, and realizing the way it relates to understanding human consciousness and self-awareness and what our minds are. charlie: a subject of great speculation and obsession and curiosity among neuroscientists. alex: absolutely, and an area of no certain knowledge. it is an important thing to take on board. charlie: which is probably one of the reasons why they are so curious about it. alex: yeah. the thing we find so valuable in

joined right now by the film's director and writer alex garland.e robotic women always have these sexy voices something that comes with the science? always amazingly seductive in their voices your thoughts? >> do you remember hal in 2001. >> no, i didn't. he said i'm scared dave. this one does largely because of the actress that plays her. i think she's responsible for the voice. >> so what is this about. is it about what we've thought about ever since the beginning of movies which was "frankenstein es," man's ability to create and resurrect and finding ourselves at war with our own creation whether it's "hal 9000" or "bladerunner." >> i didn't actually afroch as a cautionary tail in that "frankenstein" type way. i actually thought about it as -- as feeling there was a lot of anxiety about artificial intelligence floating about, a lot of concern. it comes from the tech world, but it comes more broadly, you know from scientist stephen hawking and elon musk and so on and talking about it recently and i didn't feel that way. i felt more interested and

as you mentioned garland police being assisted by the the fbi. mike and alexck to you. >> it sound like what prompted it, what was the the contest again you are supposed to draw a cartoon character, of the prophet. >> reporter: yes right exactly. a free speech event designed to send a message make a statement in which contestants were to submit cartoon drawings of the prophet mohammad, and so there were police on hand, nearby, and of course the security guard who ended up being wounded in this case. >> my goodness, thanks, dan. >>> 6:20. we will stay on that story. >>> man accused of shooting a new york police officer is being held without bail following a court appearance yesterday. yeah sunday. dimitri blackwell is charged with attempted murder in connection with this shooting of officer brian moore. brian is in critical condition after being shot in the head. saturday night. officer moore and another police officer were in an unmorning car when according to the police commissioner they saw blackwell add just continuing thinks waist band suspiciously. prosec

alex, back to you. >>> yes, the investigation of two armed men shot and killed outside a cartoon contest depicting prophet mow ham need texas yesterday. police say men drove up to the community center in garland, texas and started shooting at a security guard. guard was shot in the ankle. nearby businesses were evacuated as police searched suspect's car for possible explosives. organizers had heavy security in place ahead of the time because they were anticipating this protest. drawings of the prophet mohammad are considered offensive to many followers of islam and sparked violence around the world. >>> woman and her one year-old son are listed in serious condition after allah even town police say she tossed the baby in the lehigh river and jumped off the bridge herself. it is investigated as a murder suicide. nineteen year-old mom swam to shore but the child, floated do you ever river. the rescuers located this child and perform cpr on him. both are expect to survive. >> well, happening today, two former governor christie aid are due in court. they are accuse of conspiring to punish mayor of for the for the lee for failing to back christie's reelection. >> this story is back. scandal surroun

alex initially u.s. senior defense and military officials said it was in part because of the heightened rate of concern over isis recruitment activities over the internet in the u.s. and because of that shootout in garland inspired suspects shot to death there in texas last weekend. but now officials are indicating there may have been at least one threat not clear how specific or credible it was, but there may have been at least one threat against i u.s. military base or installation in the midwest. now, we did report earlier that the air force museum just outside dayton ohio has been closed entirely to any outside visitors and a concert there tonight has been canceled. officials indicate that that base -- or that installation may have received a threat specific but perhaps not credible. that indeed would have required a raising to the level of bravo. the force protection bravo. as a precaution apparently u.s. officials decided, u.s. military and defense officials decided to spread that raise to the bravo level throughout the entire u.s. military system in the u.s. alex. >> thanks for that update on that. as we told you at the end of the last hour there's an a plane crash in atlanta off the main highway