I write (and think) about AI for a living. In any given 30-minute period, I waver between worrying that AI will destroy everything I know and love, and believing — or at least wanting to believe — that it could change humanity for the better.
Dread turns into optimism, which seeps into ambivalence, which then turns back into dread-induced cynicism. Rinse, repeat. Goodness, my central nervous system needs a break.
That debate is at the heart of a new documentary arriving in theaters today, March 27. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (104 minutes) first premiered at Sundance in January and later screened at SXSW. The film explores the wild industry and mind-melting world of artificial intelligence. It takes an unflinching look at the tension between those who feel extreme doom versus those who feel extreme optimism about the AI boom, and how to make sense of that polarity.
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