←Recommendations of All Too HumAIn

Another John Busser script that passes the test! A timely piece that encourages audience members to be armchair detectives, “All Too HumAIn” kept me guessing about who’s who and what’s what, all while enjoying the dialogue and discussion(s) about what makes one human.

Aside from being sufficiently scared, I am intrigued. What happens to humans as opposed to robots if their information is not what it seems? Yes, I laughed. And then I paused. And then I thought about living this past year in the world and now I stop at conclusions. Summarizing is suspect. Knowledge is off-putting. All these things are streaming through my brain because John Busser wrote a play. Science fiction? Maybe. You decide.

The mark of an accomplished satirist, in my opinion, is the ability to laugh even while staring deeply into the abyss. AI represents a future that many of us dread. With "All Too HumAIn", John Busser proves himself quite adept at dealing with this contentious topic with humor and a touch of the absurd. A pleasure to read through and through.

I will say this play has given me a lot to think about! Like how us humans interact with artificial intelligence and how one day we might not be able to differentiate human with robot which is pretty scary! I loved the small comedic moments in this piece as well as the plot twist at the end!

Wow. This is a comedy, but also a little scary and timely. If humans are told to be suspicious of other humans, they really will be. A sliver of information can cause people to fill in blanks and spiral until they are at each other's throats! And with some people (artists especially) absolutely terrified of AI these days, this is a play that is worth viewing and discussing!

If I say that I had the ending figured out before I got there, would that be a sign of human intelligence or am I really just showing my AI chops? Not to worry; no spoiler alert because John Busser had me going from the beginning to the end, and only by thinking -- aha! -- did I catch on to the true test. I think that -- there's that word again -- all systems are functioning within normal parameters, and this one exceeds specified expectations.

I was instantly drawn in by the explanation of the test and wanting to figure out who was who or what was what. I failed miserably, which only means that John Busser has thoroughly succeeded once again at not only entertaining with his personal brand of humor, but with a surprising and somewhat unnerving look at where AI is headed. The setup is executed to perfection. Better than any robot could do. Hmm… Could John Busser really be a…noooo!

All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. And yet, as Busser makes all too evident with this funny but chilling short play, it will all happen again, again. In our collective race to perfect so-called "artificial intelligence" we will chase each others' tails while the machines become smarter and smarter as they watch us do it. Very well done.

Always a joy to read a John Busser play. Here we tackle the coming AI apocalypse. I’ve grown to adore John’s ability to set a story into motion. It’s like being a frog in a pot of water that’s slowly coming to a boil. All the elements are present as we accept the premise, but then Busser’s sleight of hand dazzles us and has us applauding at the reveal of the trick.

I loved the premise, and then the "cat and mouse" (computer mouse?) was a tremendous amount of fun, as we're kept guessing up until the ending as to the true meaning of the "experiment." Great science fiction short here that would be great to see produced!