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 AIinsanity. 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.
Cast
- Sam Altman
- Daniela Amodei
- Dario Amodei
- Emily M. Bender
- Yoshua Bengio
- Liv Boeree
- Ajeya Cotra
- Peter Diamandis
- Randima Fernando
- Timnit Gebru
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This AI documentary has viewers deeply divided, with many criticizing it as toothless propaganda that gives softball interviews to tech billionaires while others praise its balanced, all-sides approach to examining humanity's AI future. The film follows a soon-to-be father grappling with existential dread about his child's world, featuring interviews with both AI safety advocates like Tristan Harris and industry leaders like Sam Altman.
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- Feb 1, 2026
If I understand correctly, this film (while bonding with Sam Altman) is saying AI won’t destroy us as long as we trust capitalism to do the right thing.
inmanicMar 26, 2026I’m not the Reddit rage bait rant kinda guy who voices every personal opinion online without thinking twice… but the reviews of this doc reveals a lot about how some people perceive what independent, centralist journalism should be. “This is propaganda.” If this were some…
Jack GouldMar 13, 2026This guy spent 2 years talking to the foremost experts in AI in the world and essentially just asked them "make me feel better about AI". And when he didn't like the answer, he just asked different people... until he got an answer he liked. There's no research here or…
cecyxcx - Mar 27, 2026
EXISTENTIAL DREAD! Not sure why some people are calling this pro AI propaganda? I was already Anti-AI going in, I'm even more Anti-AI now. This was freakin' terrifying. Some of the things I heard had my jaw on the floor. Not the be all end all documentary on AI. But if…
Joel R.Mar 26, 2026A lot of the takes on this already feel depressingly pre-written. I get the sense that some people showed up to see whether it would affirm whatever position they had already decided to hold, but I actually found its refusal to do that to be one of its real strengths. What…
Trevor TillmanMar 17, 2026This movie’s ending is a suggestion to call your congressperson or join an organization to push for guardrail laws. It gets so close to saying that the incentive structure for this made up technology has been decoupled from actual markets that a financial speculation…
Dave Gonzales - Mar 24, 2026
barely scratches the surface of the most interesting questions about AI and capitalism, structural inequality, climate change... but at least they got sam altman to sit down and answer a few softball questions?
asha pruittFeb 1, 2026Genuinely reprehensible and destructive film. Why does it start with the most well-articulated interview subjects explaining how AI is rapidly spiraling out of control… then transition to glib, corporate motivational speakers that sound like they’re trying to sell me on…
jake stokesMar 17, 2026Apparently I can stave off the AI apocalypse by “writing my congressman”
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Metacritic
Jan 30, 2026
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
The Hollywood Reporter
Jan 30, 2026
But aside from calling for some bland common sense regulations that should be uncontroversial to any sane person, Roher doesn’t attempt to make anyone agree with him. After all of the information is presented, the film is much more interested in exploring the human story of how each of us has to wrap our own mind around an impossibly large topic.
Christian Zilko
IndieWire
Jan 30, 2026
Roher’s willingness to blindly accept any and all of his speakers’ pronouncements leaves The AI Doc feeling toothless. ... Clearly, the filmmakers want to present the material in an evenhanded fashion so that viewers can make up their own mind, but in the name of so-called fairness, the documentary lacks any real perspective or inquisitiveness.
Tim Grierson
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