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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

2026 1h 44m
Documentary
MOVIEVIBE Rating
7.5/10
18 reviews
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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity, and explores the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what's at stake if we get it wrong.

"The future is not automatic."

Top Billed Cast

Daniel Roher
Daniel Roher
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Sam Altman
Sam Altman
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Daniela Amodei
Daniela Amodei
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Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei
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Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender
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Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio
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Liv Boeree
Liv Boeree
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Ajeya Cotra
Ajeya Cotra
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L Leno Verified TMDB Critic
2026-03-27

I am an AI Researcher so it's interesting to write about something that combines my passion for movies with my daily work.

The movie does a great job interviewing very prominent AI figures, ranging from the most pessimistic doomist to the unreasonable naive optimistic ones, in an engaging and clear way to the general public. Their discourse in the movie is very compatible with what they say in academic conferences, so no sneaky editing there, and the movie should be very informative on what some of the people that know the technical details of how AI is trained are thinking.

Perhaps a bi...