Pesquisando alguns dos títulos do Channel 4 dos anos 90 no site The Telefantasy List , eu acho Eu encontrei - havia uma série de documentários chamada Equinox que tinha alguns filmes únicos chamados " Equinox Specials "incluindo O Rei do Caos de 1998, que tem a seguinte sinopse:
Docu-drama of what the media might be like by the year 2012. EQUINOX's first drama, set in the future, focuses on the facts behind the suspicious death of media mogul, Liam Keller, whose software applications have had a huge impact upon broadcast TV, earning him enemies around the world. In the late 1990s, Keller had devised 'Gambit', a virus which enabled all technologies (the internet, television broadcasting, e-mail) to converge - to communicate with one another. Found floating in the Thames, a television current affairs programme sets out to explore how Keller might have met his death. Through Keller's life story this drama explores the consequences of future technology, reflecting on what might happen to our present day media over the next few years. The programme also includes interviews with leading futurologists, including British Telecom's Director of Research Peter Cochrane.
A lista telefística também observa que "'O Rei do Caos foi repetido no Canal 4 como um episódio de Futurecast em 2000", e olhando para cima "Futurecast" eu encontrei um resumo aqui que lista alguns outros episódios que parecem corresponder ao que você lembra:
Futurecast, first aired on Channel 4, April 2000, is a trilogy of sci-fi dramas set in 2012-13. Each episode - "The Kidnap", "The King of Chaos" and "Newborn" - deals with the consequences of technological and scientific advances. "The Kidnap", directed by Bryn Higgins, is about a couple, Louise and Craig Richardson (Paula O'Grady and Gary Sefton), who hire radical healthcare activist, Sepp Kurtz (Adrian Shiller) to hack into the world's most popular news channel to broadcast the trial of a powerful biotechnology boss, Terence Singh (Ranjit Krishnamma), they kidnapped to get the gene therapy needed for Craig's leukaemia. "The King of Chaos" deals with a murdered software mogul, Liam Keller (Danny Webb), who may have created the world's first intelligent software. Who killed him and what were their motives? "Newborn" is concerned with how people react when the internet becomes intelligent. A decision is made to shut it down, but with what consequences? How will this affect the flow of information?
" Recém-nascido " parece com o que você estava falando com o A.I. Não consegui encontrar uma versão on-line ou em DVD, mas a empresa que fez o Futurecast, Stone City Films , tem uma página com um pequeno clipe do episódio "The Kidnap" aqui .