“People can relate to babies. People love babies!” Roher said on a Sundance Film Festival panel.
The AI Doc’s approach of examining an abstract topic through a personal story echoes Navalny, Roher’s Oscar-winning 2023 documentary, which presented the terror and dysfunctional comedy of the Russian state through a snapshot of the life of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his family. As in Navalny, it’s an effective strategy. The film’s most powerful moments intertwine Roher’s emotional journey with his on-screen conversations with researchers.
“It’s not good news,” replies Harris, looking visibly affected, before the camera cuts away.
This includes the doomers, who think that AI will kill everyone, as well as the utopians, who hold that AI will usher in a new era of human flourishing. (It is a little disconcerting that the doomsayers include a godfather of AI, an inventor of ChatGPT, and the chief AGI scientist at Google DeepMind—while the optimists are represented by a physicist who got famous on Twitter and the founder of LinkedIn.) Even the people who think that AI is overhyped make an appearance, although mostly as a footnote—which, unsurprisingly, they didn't appreciate.
The AI Doc’s big ticket stars are the CEOs leading the race towards artificial general intelligence: Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind. The AI Doc has an opportunity to show these celebrity technologists in a new light—but making powerful people speak candidly or say novel, interesting things is not easy. “Sam [Altman] is sitting on the precipice of being one of the most powerful men in the world,” says Roher. “He's not going to be derailed by saying something stupid to some schmuck.”
In Tremper’s telling, the unsatisfactory nature of the CEOs’ appearance is deliberate: a way to show that even the people at the top have no plan. “It's very important that the film doesn't choose favorites in terms of which CEO we like because they're all culpable to a different degree,” he says.
But the documentary is also a story of hope, inviting viewers to acknowledge the unpredictability of the future and take ownership. Since making the movie, Tremper has become the interim executive director of the Creators’ Coalition on AI, aimed at uniting the creative industry in the face of Big Tech. Roher recently canceled his ChatGPT subscription after OpenAI signed a deal with the Pentagon. And The AI Doc itself, which follows in the tradition of movies such as The Social Dilemma and An Inconvenient Truth, is an attempt at shifting course, three years in the making.
“I’m doing what I can in my own life as a filmmaker and a father and a husband to try and just ever so slightly bend the arc of this thing away from the predetermined result,” says Roher.
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