""The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist," co-directed by Oscar-winning film-maker Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell, examines the promises and risks of AI through a personal lens, while bringing together some of the most influential voices shaping the global AI conversation. The film arrives at a moment when AI systems are being adopted faster than regulatory frameworks can keep pace, raising urgent questions about safety, governance and social impact."
"Roher, who won an Academy Award in 2023 for "Navalny," traces his interest in AI to his early experiments with publicly released tools from OpenAI, including ChatGPT. The speed and sophistication with which these systems could generate text and images impressed him, but also heightened his concerns about how little the public understands technologies that are already influencing creative work, employment, and information flows."
"Those concerns intensified when Roher and his wife, film-maker Caroline Lindy, learned they were expecting their first child. "It felt like the whole world was rushing into something without thinking," Roher says in the film, connecting personal fears about parenthood to broader uncertainty about AI's trajectory. His central question becomes whether it is safe to bring a child into a world increasingly shaped by machines whose long-term behavior remains unclear."
A documentary places the AI debate in the cultural spotlight by showing both optimism and deep unease as AI reshapes economies, industries, and daily life. Co-directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell, it frames promises and risks through a personal lens while assembling influential AI voices to explain the technology. The documentary highlights that adoption of AI is outpacing regulatory frameworks and raises urgent questions about safety, governance, and social impact. Personal anxieties about parenthood amplify concerns about public understanding and whether it is safe to raise a child in a world increasingly shaped by machines with uncertain long-term behavior.
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