An Oscar-nominated short about awful AI - “Please Hold” is a darkly comic take on our criminal justice future. The story opens on a police drone swooping down on an unsuspecting Latinx man, declaring that he’s under arrest and ordering him to cuff himself. From there, the case of mistaken identity becomes a sci-fi nightmare filled with AI-operated booking rooms, touchscreen-enabled jail cells, and goofy cartoon avatars plea-bargaining prison sentences. In 17 gripping minutes, “Please Hold” makes you rethink the promise of our autonomous future.