The AI Doc Explores Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence

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Publish Date: 2026-04-04 16:18:00

The AI Doc – Photo: Focus Features

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Prepare to bow down to your AI overlords. Several of the experts interviewed in Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell’s engaging, if alarming, documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist articulate some degree of existential dread contemplating a future ruled by artificial intelligence.

Citing the soon-to-be superhuman capabilities of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), and feats like an AI model that passed the bar exam, folks in the know offer dire prognoses. An anecdote about another AI model that was threatened with being replaced and resorted to blackmailing the company’s lead engineer over an illicit affair leaves onscreen interviewer Roher speechless.

Played for full impending-doom dramatic effect, and the deadpan comedy of Roher’s reactions, pronouncements about superhuman tech taking over the world form only one side of the argument. More moderate voices also have a say, as do a cohort dubbed Apocaloptimists.

The film is framed around father-to-be Roher (whose 2022 Navalny took home an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature) seeking out all the possibilities. For the sake of his unborn child, he pursues answers to all kinds of important questions posed by the advent of AI. Also because children are the future, he admits in voiceover to hoping it’s not all prognosis negative.

Surely someone has a positive outlook on what one expert refers to as the “vast, dramatic,…

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