‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Review: A Scary, Dizzying and Essential Deep Dive into the AI Revolution

Daniel Roher, the director of "Navalny," has made a heady documentary that explores the future of artificial intelligence with fearlessly open eyes.

By Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman

Chief Film Critic

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“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” is a scary, dizzying and essential documentary. If you have any interest in artificial intelligence (which is to say: the future), you should go out and see it right now. The film was co-directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell, and though Roher made the seismic documentary “Navalny” (2022), which was powerful and journalistic in a classical way, “The AI Doc” has been structured as a ride into the future — a kaleidoscopic meditation on what AI is (the film explains it from the ground up), how intelligent it really is (100 times more than you think), its potential for doom and for miracles, and how all of that fits together.

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