Overview
- The film, which opens Friday, March 27, in theaters via Focus Features, brings together more than 40 on‑camera voices to explain what AI could break and what it could fix.
- Director Daniel Roher adopts an “apocaloptimist” stance, using his experience as a father‑to‑be to frame both existential risks and potential gains from AI.
- Interviews include OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario and Daniela Amodei, and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, while Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg do not appear.
- Roher attacks the current AI boom as hype, saying the industry’s economy is being “propped up by a Ponzi scheme.”
- Backers position the movie as a starting point for civic action, with Tristan Harris urging group viewings and comparing its role to An Inconvenient Truth or The Social Dilemma for AI.