MONDAY, Feb. 13 Humans The eight-episode second season picks up several months after the events of the first, with Niska still at large and in possession of the consciousness code, as a new emerging form of intelligent life – the synths – and an already established one – humanity – fight for their places in the world. Carrie-Anne Moss joins the cast as Dr. Athena Morrow, a leading artificial intelligence expert driven by her own motives to create a new kind of machine consciousness .