What ‘The AI Doc’ Filmmakers Want Everyone to Know About AI: ‘There Probably Isn’t an Off Switch’

A Wildly Diverting New Documentary About AI That Already Feels Out of Date

Sam Altman and Yuval Noah Harari are among those grappling with the most urgent technological challenge of our time, in ‘The AI Doc.’

What ‘The AI Doc’ Filmmakers Want Everyone to Know About AI: ‘There Probably Isn’t an Off Switch’

When the filmmakers behind “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist,” set out to investigate the dawn of the age of artificial intelligence, they couldn’t predict what the next two-and-a-half years would have in store. The Focus Features documentary, in theaters now, explores the intersection of AI development and its impact on humanity […]

THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST Review: Timely, Personal, Must-See Doc

For Daniel Roher, the documentary filmmaker behind 2022’s essential Academy Award winner, Navalny, AI (Artificial Intelligence) isn’t just an abstract construct or the latest technological wonder endlessly hyped by Silicon Valley CEOs, the mainstream media, and tech influencers, to every other company, public institution, or government entity in the world.   Instead, it's deeply personal, driven by a generalized anxiety surrounding impending fat…