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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

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From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what's at stake if we get it wrong.

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Barry Hertz Globe and Mail 16h
Even when there are contextual blind spots, such as the film’s too-brief look at the environmental effects of AI data centres, the information that is here is all packaged in a highly entertaining manner. Go to Full Review
Owen Gleiberman Variety 16h
A scary, dizzying and essential documentary. If you have any interest in artificial intelligence (which is to say: the future), you should go out and see it right now. Go to Full Review
Alissa Wilkinson New York Times 17h
There’s some value, though, in sorting through what’s being said. Collecting bites of it in one place to muse upon is at least somewhere to start. Go to Full Review
Luke Y. Thompson Mortal Cinema (Substack) 8h
By example, it proves that movies connect best when they are most human. Go to Full Review
Christopher Campbell Nonfics (Substack) 9h
An example of how all issue documentaries should play out, but it’s also the issue documentary that drops the mic on all the world’s problems. Go to Full Review
Swara Salih The Nerds of Color 19h
A+
While there are certainly terrifying prospects of how this technology can be used, Roher and Tyrell ultimately make clear that it remains up to us, and we absolutely can take hold of that destiny. So let’s get to work. Go to Full Review
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Brad C @BradCC 1h Absolutely terrible exploration into the ideas behind AI/LLMs. The most shallow of interview questions were used, and if you've seen any interview with any individual in this movie you've seen a better one guaranteed. Every interview was as shallow as possible because the interviewer asked too few questions that were open ended and let the people walk all over him, which led to the direction of "apocalypse" or "optimist". No true pushback, journalism, any real dive into the questions, just more black-boxing to fear-monger and drive stonk up. This is a deeply unserious look at a very serious topic. LLMs take a very small backseat in this debate, but the narrative in the public-sphere has grown exclusively about this portion of the debate. What brief mentions they make into things like robotics, military application, etc are unexplored and left to the viewer to assume are related to LLMs, but have nothing to do with LLMs and AGI but more classifier AI and other algorithms. See more Michael R @RT50436188 6h Just saw The AI Doc and honestly it’s one of those movies that just stays in your head after you leave. What I really liked is that it doesn’t talk down to you or try to scare you into caring. The director is basically going through this journey of becoming a dad and wondering what the future looks like for his kid, and that hook makes everything feel real and relatable instead of like a lecture. They talk to a ton of experts on all sides, the optimists and the pessimists, and I walked out feeling like I actually understood the conversation better. Highly recommend, especially if AI is something you’ve been curious or nervous about. Go see it! See more Allie S. @RT15379063 9h Outstanding doc on the future of Ai. Will be thinking about it for a while. See more Ed Ed and Eddie E @RT87273374 14h Tiddlytubbies the web series is often considered to have mildly inappropriate content on Hulu it relied on more cruel humor and occasional suggestive things for an adult rather than typical children’s content while sometimes rated PG critics have often noted scenes involving, for example, example a character named baba being watched while in the shower crude Hubert and innuendo the show frequently utilizes psychological humor potty humor and suggestive dialogue that passes over children’s head but it’s aimed at adults violence, and physical comedy the show features, intense violence, where characters are being slapped beaten up or throwing or smashing objects sexualized imagery themes involving a baby Tiddlytubbies ogling a female Tiddlytubbies in her private room which has been seen as trivializing sexual harassment others mention mild innuendos regarding relationships and a character without skin or real male nudity installments See more Adam V @Yin69yang 14h Wow! What a movie. Brilliantly done and the discussions were super powerful. IT'S A MUST SEE ASAP! See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what's at stake if we get it wrong.
Director
Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell
Producer
Daniel Kwan, Jonathan Wang, Shane Boris, Diane Becker, Ted Tremper
Distributor
Focus Features
Production Co
Fishbowl Films, Cottage M
Rating
PG-13 (Language)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 27, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 43m