Stephen Kendrick (Keith Langsdale), right, warns Alan Moss (Jim Lobley) about the dangers of defying the federal ban on working with super-intelligent computers.

  
Rep J. L. Muller (Edmond Genest) questions MIT computer scientist David Kaplan (Frank Aronson) at a regional congressional hearing in Boston.


IVAN, a super-intelligent computer, informs Kendrick and Moss that it  has arrived at an answer to their question.



Teaching a class about artificial intelligence, Kendrick addresses the question of whether computers will ever be conscious.



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This cartoon, as well as the illustration of Butler (a computer assistant in the movie), was drawn for THE GOD QUESTION by Bob Rich, an award winning illustrator who also appeared in the film as one of the elected officials in the Congressional panel scene.