From the Oscar-winning director of NAVALNY, a father-to-be who tries to figure out what is happening with the AI insanity, exploring the existential dangers and stunning promise of this technology that humanity has created.
There’s something deeply compelling about art born out of acute anxiety — perhaps because it stems from vulnerability and a need for clarity. THE A.I. DOC: OR HOW I BECAME A APOCALOPTIMIST grew out of co-director Daniel Roher’s profound unease about the future, especially the role artificial intelligence will play in shaping it. Together with Charlie Tyrell, Roher explores both the dazzling possibilities and risks of these fast-evolving tools, along with the price they may carry.
Combining expert interviews, home videos and animations, the film meets this pressing AI discourse with curiosity and heart, clarifying complex ideas while acknowledging how much remains uncertain and deeply human. Rather than claiming to have all the answers, THE AI DOC offers a conversation that feels urgent, hopeful, and impossible to ignore.
“Daniel Roher never claims to have AI figured out, which is partially why his film THE A.I. DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST is worth watching…. The film argues that we can either be the generation that gets our arms around a dynamic new technology and ushers in an era of prosperity, or we can be the idiots who allow the world to end by letting the egomaniacs who sit atop five corporations run wild with it.” —Christian Zilko, IndieWire “The pace is a visceral reflection of both AI’s rapid progress and Roher’s jittery state of mind. The film’s first-person approach and dynamic visual style make it more engaging and livelier than you might expect such a well-researched documentary about this serious subject to be.” —Caryn James, Hollywood Reporter
