NeXt Sneak Peek: John Slattery Faces Rogue AI in New Fox Thriller

Get an exclusive sneak peek at Fox’s new thriller NeXt, from creator and executive producer Manny Coto (24: Legacy). Silicon Valley pioneer Paul LeBlanc (John Slattery) built a fortune and legacy on the world-changing innovations he dreamed up, while ignoring and alienating the people around him. After discovering that one of his own creations – a powerful artificial intelligence called neXt – might spell doom for humankind, Paul tries to shutter the project, only to be kicked out of the company by his own brother, leaving him with nothing but mounting dread about the fate of the world. When a series of unsettling tech mishaps points to a potential worldwide crisis, LeBlanc joins forces with Special Agent Shea Salazar (Fernanda Andrade). Now, LeBlanc and Salazar are the only ones standing in the way of a potential global catastrophe, fighting an emergent superintelligence that, instead of launching missiles, will deploy the immense knowledge it has gleaned from the data all around us to recruit allies, turn people against each other and eliminate obstacles to its own survival and growth. NeXt premieres October 6 on Fox in the US.

source: ign.com