OK. STOP what you are doing.
Go to your streaming video - whatever gadget you use.
Find this movie / documentary.
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
“From Academy Award®-winning filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Roher comes an eye-opening documentary exploring the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.”
The potential benefits of this technology are way beyond anything you have envisioned to this point.
And the risks are similarly huge. The sudden extinction of human kind.
Tens of thousands are working on the potential.
A few hundred are working on mitigating the risks.
To solve the problem, we just need to quickly grow our human society to be mature enough to manage this thing. We need YOU to join us in some fashion or other.
Watch it! This documentary is very well done. It is an extensive conversation with the CEOs of the AI companies, and many people working in the field. They are bright. They are hopeful. AND they are also very frightened of this thing!
There is a very human story running through the film, and lots of cute babies. NOT babes - babies. Well, they are toward the end.
Official Trailer
THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST - Official Trailer
It is available to watch at home now. On Peacock:
Alternatively, if you prefer to rent or purchase it digitally, the documentary is available on video-on-demand platforms such as Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV. [1, 2, 3]
Many viewing options here: https://uni.pictures/TheAIDocYT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvq-jYira9I Trailer and YouTube buy or rent.
More resources
This website / foundation was founded to give us a more hopeful future with AI - a humane one.
https://www.humanetech.com/landing/the-ai-doc
They have a discussion guide, and 7 guiding principles that are detailed on this page.
Understand AI in 14 minutes – with Anthropic's Chloe Lubinski [ARC 2026]
https://youtu.be/aBUniZHgCnE She explains a lot more how this works. She’s the lead person in Anthropic’s ethical efforts. Her boss made the announcement of the encyclical by Leo 14th addressing this problem: Magnifica Humanitas. He is asking for ALL OF US to help out here.
NBC news coverage of the film and extended interview with Tristan Harris: https://youtu.be/a50TSY2X-yM
Uval Harari: An Honest Conversation on AI and Humanity | Yuval Noah Harari
Sam Harris and Tristan Harris (above) - one of the people interviewed in the film.
Escaping an Anti-Human Future - I think this is a totally free episode.
https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/469-escaping-an-anti-human-future
They talk about the movie, and they also critique it.
They also cite some recent examples of AI models that escaped their keepers, and did some very unexpected things in secret. And those are the ones we KNOW about. Watch this AFTER you watch the movie, if you want a more in depth exploration of what Tristan Harris is attempting to do with the “Humane Tech” organization, and how we all could help.
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