The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

When it comes to the genre of film, documentaries are probably one of my favorite simply because of their passion, objectivity (assuming they're really that) and the array of eclectic subject matter which can span many topics, The sky is the limit: sports, politics, entertainment, science religion, etc to mention a handful. Now we have "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist" to sink our teeth into.

A father-to-be, Daniel Roher attempts to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. "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. This is an exhaustive expose with director Daniel Roher ("Ghosts of Our Forest" '17, "Once Were Brothers" '19, "Navalny" '22, "Blink" '24, "Turner" '25) plus TV and shorts). It was also directed by Charlie Tyrell (TV, shorts and videos). As stated, Roher was involved with in-depth interviews about the pros and potential cons of AI with Sam Altman, CEO, Open AI, Daniela Amodei, President & Co-Founder, Anthropic, Dario Amodei, CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic, Demis Hassabis, CEO & Co-Founder, Google Deepmind, Peter Lee, President, Microsoft Research, and many many others with final conclusions that if we don't work together as people who want to do the right thing, AI could, if left unchecked, create situations that could harm our society. It's sobering. but on the other hand, if continually checked, AI would help our society immensely. It's our call as a people. Do we want to have children in our near future? Will many people lose their jobs do to AI? These questions and many more were asked and tackled through objective discussions. 

I truly want to encourage all to see this film--if not in the theater, on Netflix once it reaches that, since this doesn't actually need to be seen on the large screen to receive the full impact. AI is here and I really don't believe it's going anywhere. We, as a society, need to realize its full potential and gear AI to a place that will benefit us all, and not be involved for greed and avarice reasons. It looks as though AI can be our best friend or our worst enemy--it's really up to us. 

Out of 4 Stars: 4                                    Rated: PG-13                                      104min.