Next, which premieres Tuesday at 9/8c.Next, starring Mad Men's John Slattery, is based on the nightmare scenario of an A.I. that becomes super-intelligent and thus super-dangerous.
Slattery plays Paul LeBlanc, an extremely intelligent former Silicon Valley CEO who joins forces with FBI Agent Shea Salazar (Fernanda Andrade) and her team to fight back against a powerful artificial intelligence system Paul created.
It's a dangerous fight. In an attempt to hide the fact that it has basically gone rogue, the A.I. — called neXt — starts offing anyone and everyone who figures out what it has become capable of, using the show's version of Amazon's Alexa, computerized cars, and even medical equipment to do them in.
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