The AI Doc trailer explains how one becomes an Apocaloptimist

Regardless of how anyone feels about it, AI is here, it’s clear, and it’s freaking out Marvel screenwriters. Everyone knows that once Hollywood screenwriters think we’re cooked, we might as well pack it in and accept our fates. There’s simply too much money being passed among three companies for us not to think this technology will be either humanity’s savior or its destroyer. We’ve been living with AI for a few short years, and already people are developing new forms of psychosis, perfectly healthy relationships with chatbots, and ways to surveil their neighborhood under the guise of finding lost puppies. It’s against this wonderful situation that The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist hopes to surprise viewers with a take somewhere in the middle: It’s okay to be terrified and optimistic about this technology that will be the death of us all anyway. Or, it will simply crash the U.S. economy, whichever happens first. 

Directed by Academy Award-winner Daniel Roher (Navalny) and Charlie Tyrell (My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes) and produced by Daniel Kwan (Everything Everywhere All At Once), The AI Doc speaks to AI doomers, who work at technology institutes to determine the most possible ways AI can change or destroy the world. Roher is also the star, who, as an expecting father, is trying to determine whether this is the worst time in history to have a child. He wants the full spectrum of information, which is why he hands the mic over to AI CEOs who have revolutionized the SPAM, misinformation, and online harassment industries. The AI Doc wonders whether unleashing this technology on us was a good idea, but also what we can do now that it’s out there.