Code of Virtue

Rom Lotan, Writer 

Sloan Grant(s) Received: 2020, Screenwriting Award, USC 

Project Type: Feature 

Genre: Espionage, Thriller 

Length: 106 pages 

Field of Science: Artificial Intelligence 

Stage: Development 

Synopsis 

A detached computer engineer finds himself entangled in a clandestine operation designed to program artificial intelligence morality mechanisms, as a blueprint for autonomous decision-making automatic weapons; while dealing with hard moral questions concerning his personal past, he must come to terms with the kind of man he wants to be, and his own “code” if he wants to save himself and his estranged family.